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Complete roughout Cross-section is roughly rectangular. Surface is flaked. Minor differentiation between butt and blade. Front reduced. Sides taper towards poll. Bevel demarcated by a small line. Cutting edge is sharp and straight. Chipped along mid cutting edge. Both bevel and cutting edge unfinished.

Broken adze. (Blade remaining) Cross-section is circular. Surface is mostly ground. Patches of bruising on the top half. Butt not present. Bevel is continuous with blade, blade is blunt and curved, chipped.

Broken adze (Blade remaining). Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is mostly ground. Flaked on sides. Butt not present. Bevel continuous with blade, blade is sharp and straight, chipped.

Broken pounamu gouge. The cross section is hexagonal. The surface is ground with natural flaking at the poll and flaking at the cutting edge. Two of the sides on the proper right have sawing marks. The bevel is demarked by a curved line. The cutting edge is broken.

Broken pounamu gouge. The cross section is rectangular. The surface is ground with flaking at the poll and on the proper left front of the blade. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is curved and broken.

Broken pounamu gouge, only lower blade remaining. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground with flaking on the bevel. The bevel is demarked with a curved line. The cutting edge is curved and chipped.

Broken pounamu gouge, only lower blade remaining. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground with flaking on the bevel and front. The bevel is demarked by two diagonal lines. The cutting edge is broken off.

Broken pounamu chisel, only lower blade remaining. The cross section is rectangular. The surface is ground with bruising on the broken edge. The bevel is demarked by a straight line. The two sides both have sawing marks. The proper left has a sawing mark on the back. The proper right has sawing marks on the top and bottom. The cutting edge is straight and sharp.

Broken pounamu chisel, only middle of blade remaining. The cross section is circular. The surface is ground with bruising on the broken edge. Flaking and bruising instead of cutting edge. There is no bevel demarked.

broken chisel, cutting edge and a part of the blade present. roughly triangular The surface is ground. The bevel is continuous with the blade. The cutting edge is sharp and oblique.

Broken adze (Portion of butt remaining). Cross-section is rectangular. Surface is ground on the front and right side, flaked on left side and back. No differentiation between butt and blade, sides taper towards poll. Blade not present.

Broken adze. (Blade remaining) Cross-section is oval. Surface is mostly ground, rough area on the back where it was broken. Butt not present. Bevel is continuous with blade, blade is sharp and curved, chipped.

Broken adze (Part of blade remaining). Cross-section is asymmetrical. Surface is ground on the blade, proper right side is bruised. Roughness on back and proper left side where it was broken. Butt not present. Bevel is continuous with blade, blade is blunt and curved.

Broken adze (Portion of blade remaining). Cross-section is oval. Surface is mostly flaked, ground on blade. Butt not present. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge not present.

Broken adze (Portion of blade remaining). Cross-section is oval. Surface is ground, flaked on back and sides. Butt not present. Cutting edge not present.

Incomplete adze - blade extant. Oval Bruised and flaked. Butt not present. Bevel demarcated by faint curved line running from corner to corner. Cutting edge is sharp, rough and rounded.

Broken adze, bevel end remaining. The cross section is trapezoidal with the back narrower than the front. The surface is ground with some chipping on the proper left side. The butt is absent. The bevel is demarcated by a line at the back and a ridge at the sides. The cutting edge is asymmetrically curved with the proper left side of the blade shorter than the right. The edge is sharp.