Kauri Point Pa

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Summary

Site U13/4

The pa in the 1960s.

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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

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 Unpublished manuscript presented at New Zealand Archaeological Association Conference, New Plymouth.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 . Law's review of the archaeology of the Bay of Plenty reviewed the evidence from the site .

References