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== Location and Date ==
 
== Location and Date ==
 
On the Katikati Peninsula in the Tauranga Harbour, Bay of Plenty.
 
On the Katikati Peninsula in the Tauranga Harbour, Bay of Plenty.
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-37.553779, 175.917139, Katikati, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand
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Excavations took place in 19  , 19  and the early 1970s.
 
Excavations took place in 19  , 19  and the early 1970s.

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Summary

Site U13/4

The pa in the 1960s.
File:Kauri Pt.jpg
View along excavation squares, excavation in progress. Ditch in foreground.
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Excavation of baulks N-D 28 (Miss Jackie Harding and Eleanor Crosbie) and O.P. 28 (Miss Josette Davies and Peter Henrikson).
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Square L11-12. Excavation in progress. Lawrie Birks.
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Square L11-12. View down trench through double ditch feature.
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Square L11-12. Square L34. View from here to the east showing relationship to earthworks of the pa.

Auckland University Matipihi has a large sequence of photographs from this site Link.

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

Jack Golson

Archaeologists

Wall Ambrose

University of Auckland Archaeological Society

Other contributing specialists

Alan Pullar

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 Unpublished manuscript presented at New Zealand Archaeological Association Conference, New Plymouth.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] .

References

  1. Green, R.C. 1978: Dating the Kauri Point sequence. Historic Review 26(1): 32–45.
  2. Law, R G 2008 Archaeology of the Bay of Plenty Department of Conservation Publication 246, Wellington.