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.
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 site in the the creek bed above Refuge Bay Waterfall with a fish, eel and man as well as axe grinding grooves.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1987
An Aboriginal engraving of a fish on a large rock platform along a ridge above Refuge Gully.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1978
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
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
An Aboriginal engravng of a snake (which is bent double) along the Resolute Track.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
An enormous Aboriginal engraving of a whale (just under 12m in length) above the Resolute Track.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1965
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy, Ian Sim
- View site sketch
Single Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo on a rock platform near the Salvation Loop Track.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1988
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
Aboriginal engravings of four kangaroos, a wombat and what looks like an emu on a rock platform near the Salvation Loop Track.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1988
An Aboriginal rock engraving of an indeterminate object, on top of a large rock near Currawong Beach.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1986
- View site sketch
Aboriginal engraving of a bulbous headed club on Topham Hill
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2021
Aboriginal engraving of an eel on the southern side of Topham Hill
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1989
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald