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Revision as of 18:57, 16 February 2012
Mt Wellington - Maungarei
The site is a large volcanic cone, formerly a Maori pa. It was excavated between 1960 and 1972 by Jack Golson, Wilfred Shawcross and Janet Davidson. The excavations were in response to development threats of water reservoirs and roads.
<googlemap lat="-36.890382" lon="174.846468" zoom="16"> -36.891514, 174.846768, Mt Wellington - Maungarei </googlemap>
Davidson consolidated the excavations into a single major report. It is as a result the best known archaeologically of the Auckland cones.
Janet Davidson 2011 Archaeological investigations at Maungarei: A large Mäori settlement on a volcanic cone in Auckland, New Zealand Tuhinga 22: 19–100. http://www.tepapa.govt.nz/SiteCollectionDocuments/Tuhinga/Tuhinga22_019_Davidson.pdf
