The Garrigal people originally inhabited West Head, which is home to one of the largest known concentrations of recorded Aboriginal sites in Australia. The Basin & Mackerel Trail, America Bay Track and Topham Hill are some areas with significant Aboriginal engraving sites.
A set of axe grinding grooves (AGG) along the creek, near the Basin Track.
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
An Aboriginal engraving of a single fish next to the Basin Trail.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1983
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
A small Aboriginal engraving engraving site next to the Basin Trail, with man and snake
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
The Basin Track Ray is a deeply cut, distinct Aboriginal engravng described as an “indeterminate figure”.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1980
- View site sketch
Speared shark (partly damaged) above the Basin Track on a low rock platform.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good, Partially Destroyed
- Year first recorded: 1961
- View site sketch
Along the Basin Track is a fairly deeply-cut stingray (or skate), on a small rock surrounded by dense scrub.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Aboriginal rock carving of a kangaroo in the middle of the Centre Trail at West Head.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
The Challenger Snake is an Aboriginal engraving of a faint and weathered snake, near the Challenger Track.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell
Red ochre Aboriginal hand stencils and what may be charcoal art in a shelter below the Challenger Track.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1993
Water hole with a pecked water channel on a rock ledge below the Challenger Track (West Head).
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1994
A small but complex Aboriginal engraving site above Coal and Candle Creek (West Head). It has 66 motifs, including 27 mundoes, and axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 66
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1940
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
- Number of motifs: 11
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1974
An Aboriginal engraving site depicting a school of seven fish, towards the end of West Head Road
- Number of motifs: 7
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- View site sketch
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1984
- Originally recorded by: Warren Bluff
An Aboriginal engraving site with five coolamons (water containers) and an axe grinding groove near the Basin Trail
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017