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 "fishing scene" near the Wallaroo Track, which includes a woman, fish and boomerangs as well as line of mundoes.
- Number of motifs: 10
- Quality: 2.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 1898
- Originally recorded by: W.D. Campbell, F.D. McCarthy
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
- View site sketch
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
An Aboriginal engraving of a Daramulan figure on a small rock ledge above the Waratah Trail.
- Number of motifs: 1
- Quality: 3.5/5
- Condition of art: Good
- Year first recorded: 2017
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