Murdoch Collection

Murdoch Collection Collected by Pat Murdoch from sites on the Hauraki Plains and on the Coromandel. The collection had a particular emphasis on the Hauraki Plains swamp pa.

Green and Green (1963) published a brief summary of the Hauraki Plains material in the collection. Law (1994) utilised part of the collection for a study of 2B adzes.

The collection is in family posession.

Green, R and Kaye Green 1963 Classic and Early European Maori Sites on the Hauraki Plains. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 6(1):27-34.

Law G, 1994 Adzes from Kopuarahi: the Potential for Subdivision of Type 2B Adzes. Archaeology in New Zealand 37:97-103.