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.
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
Very weathered engravings of echidnas on a platform next to the Waratah Track.
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 1/5
- Condition of art: Weathered
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
Two echidnas and a leaping wallaby on a rok platform near the Waratah Track,
- Number of motifs: 3
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1954
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
A small Aboriginal engraving site in thick scrub, which includes a fsh and an emu in an unusual pose.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
An interesting-looking Aboriginal engraving (most recently described as a gecko) on a ridge off the Waratah Track
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1976
A fish with a hook inside its body near the Waratah Track (part of a series of Aboriginal engravings).
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1954
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Described as a "sacred site for whales", this large Aboriginal engraving stie near the Waratah Track includes two whales (one with a man inside it) and a deity figure.
- Number of motifs: 7
- Quality: 1.5/5
- Condition of art: Good, Weathered
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
A clearly defined decorated shield and boomerang near the Waratah Track
- Number of motifs: 4
- Quality: 4/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1954
- Originally recorded by: F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
A fish and sword club in thick scrub near the Waratah Track (part of the Arden Trig series of Aboriginal engravings).
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1954
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
An Aboriginal engraving site just below the Waratah Trail surrounded by thick scrub, which has an enormous whale
- Number of motifs: 2
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
Two axe grinding grooves on a small rock platform above West Head Road
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
- Originally recorded by: Steven Chapple
An unrecorded Aboriginal rock art art site at West Head, which may be contemporary. It has multiple stencils in red ochre.
- Number of motifs: 6
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Unknown recording date
Solitary Aboriginal engraving of a fish, below the Willunga Trig station.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1899
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
A large (13 foot) Aboriginal engraving of a kangaroo between the Yeomans Track and Wallaroo Track at West Head.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1895
- Originally recorded by: R.H. Mathews
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