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Complete silcrete blade that is mid grey and light grey in colour. There is a section of the cortex present near the distal end. There are flake scars near the proximal end of the dorsal surface. There is bifacial flaking on both lateral margins.

Silcrete flake that is mid grey and light grey in colour. There is bifacial retouching on two lateral margins.

Basalt flake that is mid grey in colour. There are two massive flake scars on the lateral margins of the dorsal surface.

Silcrete flake that is light brown. There is a crack running across the surfaces that has been glued back together.

Silcrete flake. Mid brown in colour. Unifacial retouching on one lateral margin.

Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove. Small fragment missing from one side.

Complete sinker with a faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with deep transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with a faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with a shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with a faint transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with a deep transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with a transverse lashing groove, deep on one side and shallow on the other.

Complete adze. Stone. Black. Cross-section of blade is semi-circular, front flattened. Cross-section of butt is oval. Surfaces of front and cutting edge are ground. Back of adze and butt is bruised and flaked. Major differentiation between butt and blade, sides reduced forming shoulder. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is sharp and curved. "Waimumu Nr. Gore" written on front, back, and cutting edge.

Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular. The surface of the blade is mostly ground, with some flaking. There is a large flake scar on the back of the blade. The surface of the butt is bruised, with flaking. Major differentiation between butt and blade. Bevel is concave, cutting edge is sharp and curved, large fragment missing from proper left side.

Complete adze. Cross-section is triangular, with apex to front. Apex widens towards cutting edge, making the cross-section more trapezoidal, with front narrower than back. Surface is ground around cutting edge, becoming bruised and flaked on blade and butt. Major differentiation between butt and blade. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is narrow, sharp and curved.

Broken (Cutting edge, bevel and part of the blade present) Trapezoidal, back narrower than the front. The surface is ground. The butt is missing. The bevel is curved and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is sharp and curved.

Dark red argillite implement, use unknown. Possibly a pendant, spear head, or other weapon. Surface is ground smooth with chipping at each end. Proximal end has been squared off with five or six notches down both side edges. Curves outward at shoulders and then sides taper toward the distal end. Two barb-like projections on each side (one broken off on one side). Blade is bevelled down the centre on one side.

incomplete (cutting edge missing/unfinished) rectangular, thickening from the front and back towards the poll. The surface is bruised with flaked sections along the sides and near the end of the blade. Major differentiation between the butt and the blade, the blade reduces into the butt on the sides forming a clear shoulder. There is no clear bevel. The cutting edge is poorly formed or broken off, this end is defined by flaking.