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Complete adze. Cross-section is lenticular. Surface of blade is mostly ground, with some flaking on front and back. Surface of butt is bruised, with some flaking at poll. Major differentiation between butt and blade, front and sides reduced, forming shoulder. Bevel is demarcated by lines that meet at the chin. Cutting is sharp, curved, and concave. Lightly chipped along cutting edge.

Magatama Bead

Broken pounamu drill point, point remaining. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground with flaking originating from the break. There are sawing marks on the front. The back of the point is flattened, with no bevel. The point is chipped and blunt.

Complete unfinished greenstone adze. Quadrangular cross-section. The surface is mostly ground with small flake scars. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The bevel is demarcated by an irregular oblique line. The cutting edge is irregular and chipped. There is a shallow hole bored into the butt on the back.

Complete adze Cross-section of butt is circular, cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground. Major differentiation between and butt and blade. Front heavily reduced. Bevel is demarcated by a curved ridge

Chert lake that is light grey and white in colour. It has flaking across two of the surfaces but no retouching or cortex.

Circular chert core with flake scars across all surfaces. It Is light grey and light brown in colour. There is no cortex.

Split chert blade, proper left side remaining. Light grey and white in colour. Large flake missing from proper right, with unifacial retouch along the lateral margin. Distal end also appears to have been broken and unifacially retouched on the ventral surface.Bifacial retouch on the left lateral margin.

Chert flake. Light grey in colour. Weathering at the proximal end and unifacial retouching on proper left lateral margin.

Piece of worked stone. Square cross-section with flattened sides. A single groove is cut into one side.

Elongated piece of worked stone. One end is reduced on each lateral margin; other end is rounded. One side has a groove running lengthwise, possibly for lashing.

Piece of worked stone. Cross-section is roughly half-circular. Various cut marks and reductions through the surface; possibly depicting a human skull with face.

Complete adze. Pounamu. Asymmetrical oval cross-section. The surface is bruised and flaked, and ground on the front. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is irregular and sharp.

Chert drill point. Mid brown in colour. Flake scars present. Retouch present on margins

Chert flake. Flake scars across dorsal surface.

Chert flake. Weathered cortex present. l

Chert flake. Cortex present in two places.

Chert flake.

Complete rectangular, the butt is extremely rough however. The surface is mostly flaked with ground sections. No differentiation between the butt and blade. The bevel is flat and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is curved and sharp. Complete unfinished adze Trapezoidal, Back narrower than front. Surface is ground and flaked. There is no differentiation between the butt and the blade. The bevel is continuous with some flaking. The cutting edge is sharp and curved, with some chipping.

complete trapezoidal, front narrowing to the back. Slight narrowing in the sides from the blade to the poll. The surface is flaked, with a mostly ground front. No differentiation between the butt and blade. the bevel is curved, concave, and continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is blunt and curved to follow the bevel.