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.
An interesting Aboriginal engraving site on Topham Hill depicting a school of 30 fish; below this site is a weathered carving of a man.
- Number of motifs: 67
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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Aboriginal rock carving of a male wallaby or kangaroo, on Topham Hill.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1986
Multiple Aboriginal engravings located on five sites across the western side of Topham Hill, on a series of rock ledges.
- Number of motifs: 30
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1944
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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An Aboriginal engraving site near the Topham Trail, which has two overlapping men.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1988
Axe grinding grooves and water channels along a creek below the Topham Trail.
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2019
- Originally recorded by: C. Douchkov
A small site near the Topham Trail with an indistinct engraving, which may be a boomerang.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2020
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
An Aboriginal engraving of a circle, carved on a small boulder near the Topham Trail.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
A fairly distinct Aboriginal engraving of an emu, near the Topham Trail
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1987
A small rock platform near the Topham Trail with a very weathered Aboriginal engraving of a small man.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2020
- Originally recorded by: Bob Conroy
Two red ochre handprints, in a low shelter below Topham Hill
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1986
- Originally recorded by: Jo McDonald
The Topham Trig Station engraving site is one of great ceremonial significance. It has a Daramulan figure, as well as a man and woman.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Quality: 4.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1941
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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Two rows of mundoes near West Head Road which may have represented the tracks of mythological men; much of the site is now covered over.
- Number of motifs: 17
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good, Siltation
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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A small panel of Aboriginal rock art above Towlers Bay, with three motifs in red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2025
Scattered figures including two fish and a small man at the start of the Towlers Bay Track at West Head
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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An intriguing Aboriginal engraving site near the Wallaroo Track, with five men (in two groups) as well as a number of other figures including boomerangs and mundoes.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1988
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