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 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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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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A "fishing scene" near the Wallaroo Track, which includes a woman, fish and boomerang.
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- 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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Aboriginal engraving site which has a set of axe grinding grooves next to a waterhole, and three engraved figures. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1954
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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An Aboriginal rock enrgraving site below the Waratah Track, described as depicting a successful emu hunt,
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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An Aboriginal engraving site on a spur beneath the Waratah Track, which may illustrate a fishing scene.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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Two potholes with a deep channel around them and two axe grinding grooves along a steep ledge. A short distance away are engravings of a shield and fish (not found).
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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Aboriginal engraving site which represents a man with fish which are his totem (or which he hopes to catch) near the Waratah Track. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Number of motifs: 8
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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Aboriginal engraving of a man and woman near Waratah Track. (Part of Arden Trig series.)
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
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A cerermonial or ritual Aboriginal engraving site below the Waratah Track, with a decorated man and woman, whale and many fish.
- Number of motifs: 9
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1946
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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Aboriginal engraving of an "unusual pair of human figures" near the Waratah Track. (Part of the Arden Trig series.)
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 2/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1954
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
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An Aboriginal engraving of a "dancing man", axe grinding grooves and a water channel on a long rock platform below the Waratak Trail.
- Number of motifs: 1
- 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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