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.
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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