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Incomplete adze. Blade remaining. Lozenge. The surface is ground, with heavy bruising and flaking. Butt not present. Bevel demarcated by ridge. Cutting edge is sharp, smooth and on a straight angled line. Saw mark down the right side proper.

Incomplete adze. Blade remaining. Rectangular The surface is ground, with bruising and flaking on large portions. Butt not present. Bevel is demarcated by strong straight line. Cutting edge is sharp, smooth and straight.

Incomplete adze. Blade remaining. Asymmetrical The surface is bruised and flaked Butt not present. Bevel demarcated by a prominent line. Cutting edge smooth, sharp and slightly curved, with left side proper corner missing.

Complete adze. The cross section is asymmetrical: the proper left side is lozenge shaped, the proper right side is trapezoidal with the front narrower then the back. The surface is predominantly ground. The sides and poll retain ridges from saw marks. The butt is undifferentiated. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is straight and sharp.

Broken adze, butt end remaining. The cross section is asymmetrical but approximately rectangular. The surface is flaked and ground. The butt is undifferentiated. The bevel and cutting edge are absent.

Complete adze. Asymmetrical The surface is bruised and flaked. Butt not present. Bevel is continuous with cutting edge. Cutting edge is straight and sharp

complete rectangular The surface is ground. No differentiation between the butt and the blade. The bevel is slightly curved and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is slightly curved and sharp.

Complete adze. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground, with areas of natural roughness. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, tapering towards poll - more heavily tapered on proper right side. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is sharp and straight. Chipped on proper left side.

Incomplete adze. Blade remaining. Rectangular Surface is ground on the front and flaked on the back. Butt not present. Bevel is demarcated by a straight line. Cutting edge is smooth, sharp and straight, angled up slightly toward the front right proper.

Complete adze. Rectangular Surface is ground with bruising and flaking on the back and on front right side proper. Butt has minor differentiation, left side has been reduced and shoulder raised. Bevel is demarcated by a straight line. Cutting edge is smooth, sharp and straight, angled up slightly toward the front left proper.

Complete adze Plano-convex, back flattened. Surface is ground, with flaking on the poll, front, back and sides. Butt undifferentiated and has been flaked away. Bevel is demarcated by a faint line. Cutting edge is smooth, sharp and straight, with the proper right corner flaked away.

Complete pounamu adze. Surface is ground. Cross-section is rectangular. Reduction in the top of the butt. Poll is flaked. Bevel is demarcated by a concave indentation surrounded by a line with two lines on either side. Cutting edge is slightly curved and sharp. "Dunedin District." inscription on the back. Illegible inscription in pencil on the front of blade.

Complete light green pounamu adze. Surface is ground. Cross-section is rectangular. Reduction on back and sides of butt. Bevel is demarcated by two lines. Cutting edge has been flaked away. "Dunedin District." inscription

Mostly complete slate knife, part of haft is missing or sawn off. Cutting edge is sharp. Surface is ground and shows usewear. Very slight bevel is present at cutting edge and flaking is present at one lateral margin.

Complete slate pendant in cutter shape. The proximal end has notches along the top and sides, with a groove around the upper end. There is a perforation through the centre of the groove. The sides taper out below the groove to the distal cutting edge. The bottom edge is chipped.

Broken pendant in adze form. Projection with groove around it at the proximal end for suspension. Distal end is broken off. Surface is partially ground, with large portions of bruising. There is a sawing mark down one side.

broken (blade bevel and about half the cutting edge are present) rectangular, narrowing slightly from the sides from blade towards the poll The surface is ground. Butt not present. The bevel is curved and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge appears curved and sharp (but a bit over half is missing).

Complete adze Cross-section is rectangular on the blade and oval on the butt Surface is ground on front and flaked on the back and sides Differentiation between the butt and blade; sides tapered towards the poll There are two bevels, one on the front and one on the back, both demarcated by curved lines. Cutting edge is straight and sharp

Complete adze. Mid green stone. Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground and bruised. No differentiation between butt and blade, with sides tapered toward the poll. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is curved and sharp but partially flaked. "Tokanui." inscription on the front and "Tokanui Sthld." inscription on the back.

Broken adze. Not enough remaining to tell cross-section of whole adze. Surface is ground Very little of butt remaining, but looks undifferentiated between butt and blade. Bevel is demarcated by a line. Cutting edge is sharp and curved.