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U14/2309 Artifact Find Spot
This site was recorded by Foster during the 1984 NZHPT survey of Tauranga District.
The site represents the location of an artifact find spot comprising an adze. The adze
was found by the owner while digging for a water trough on sloping ground just north
of a swamp. No photo or sketch of the adze is available, however, Foster describes
the adze as a 2B; a type commonly found on late prehistoric Maori sites. The find
spot is located on a tongue of raised land extending across SH 2. The distal end of the
ridge on the northern side of SH 2 has recently been quarried to accommodate the
new Domain Road SH 2 interchange, however, unmodified areas on the northern side
of the recent cut may contain further subsurface archaeological features and or
artefacts in the overlying volcanic loam soils and within the surrounding wetlands.
The proposed construction corridor in this area is located within the existing modified
road reserve and it is unlikely that unrecorded archaeology will be affected by the
current proposal.
U14/2309
Figure 8. Cadastral plan and aerial showing location of recorded archaeological sites U14/2309
in relation to SH2).
U14/2903 & 2904 Midden
These two midden sites are located approximately 300m north of the Mangatawa
Lane SH 2 intersection and are located within a similar environment to U14/1708 &
1709 on the north bank of the same paleochannel within the Papamoa Dune Plain.
They are close to an old track that once extended from Karikari point, on the eastern
side of Rangataua Bay, to Otira on Omanu Beach 7 and may represent a halfway point
between the coast and Karikari Pa. Mangatawa Lane follows the old track alignment
south of SH 2 but the northern alignment is no longer visible. The two middens are at
least 250m north of the proposed construction corridor.
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