Kauri Point Pa
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Summary
Site U13/4
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| Square L11-12. Excavation in progress, L Birks. | Square L34. View from here to the east showing relationship to earthworks of the pa. | View down trench through double ditch feature. | Excavation of baulks N-D 28 (Miss Jackie Harding and Eleanor Crosbie) and O.P. 28 (Miss Josette Davies and Peter Henrikson) |
Auckland University Matipihi has a large sequence of photographs from this site. The pictures here are linked from thereLink.
Location and Date
On the Katikati Peninsula in the Tauranga Harbour, Bay of Plenty.
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Excavations took place in 19 , 19 and the early 1970s.
Type
Pa site - prehistoric
Excavators
Project Directors
Archaeologists
University of Auckland Archaeological Society
Other contributing specialists
Artefacts
Publications
Excavation Report
Only preliminary reports have appeared.
Ambrose, W. 1962: Further Investigations at Kauri Point. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 5(1): 56–67.
Ambrose, W. n.d.: Kauri Point. Unpublished manuscript presented at New Zealand Archaeological Association Conference, New Plymouth.
Golson, J. 1961a: Investigations at Kauri Point, Katikati, western Bay of Plenty: conclusions and hypotheses. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 4(2): 38–41.
Golson, J. 1961b: Investigations at Kauri Point, Katikati, western Bay of Plenty: introduction. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 4(2): 13–15.
Golson, J. 1961c: Investigations at Kauri Point, Katikati, western Bay of Plenty: the excavation. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 4(2): 17–29.
Other Papers
The chronology of the site and the adjacent swamp site was summarised by Green [1]. Law's review of the archaeology of the Bay of Plenty reviewed the evidence from the site [2] .
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