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.
The Lovers and Whales Aboriginal engraving site near the Salvation Loop Track at West Head features an enormous whale, and a copulating couple
- Number of motifs: 11
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1954
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Below the Lovett Bay pool is a set of axe griinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2022
A man (fairly weathered) south of the Mackerel Trail.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
A whale and bird engraving, and number of “stone circles” formed by thousands of small pebbles arranged in neat circles.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Single fish near Mackerel Track, on a rock platform surrounded by thick scrub
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
Three weathered shields and another figure on a small rock platform, near the Mackerel Trail
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
An Aboriginal engraving of a man peeing in a waterhole, some hands and fish on a small rock platform below West Head Road.
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
One of the best showcases of Aboriginal art in the area, the singposted Red Hands Cave at West Head has multiple red ochre handprints.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1986
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
Faint Aboriginal hand stencil, in a shallow shelter on the back of Topham Hill
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
An Aboriginal engraving of an eel in the the creek bed above Refuge Bay Waterfall
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1987
Aboriginal red hand stenci in a shelter below the Resolute Track.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2021
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
The signposted Resolute Track Aboriginal Engraving Site is a short walk from the Resolute Picnic Area. It has several figures, including a man with a club across his waist.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engravings of five eels, two fish and a shark along the Resolute Track (West Head)
- Number of motifs: 8
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim, Stanbury and Clegg
- View site sketch
A line of six mundoes at one of the many Aboriginal engraving sites scattered around the Resolute Track
- Number of motifs: 5
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving of a small man, on rock platform above Resolute Track (West Head).
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2021