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Complete patu onewa, with drill perforation. Butt rounded with some chipping, moderate chipping on edges of blade. Patu is smooth, with some bruising present on blade and handle.

Complete argillite knife. Cutting edge is blunt and chipped, with larger segment missing from middle. Both surfaces are ground with bruising. Haft is very flaked.

Mostly complete slate knife, with chip missing. Cutting edge is sharp. Both surfaces are ground and slightly bruised.

Complete adze. Mid green and grey pounamu. Surface is ground with sawing marks on sides. Cross section is rectangular. Small part of poll appears to be broken off. No differentiation between butt and blade. Bevel is continuous with the blade. Cutting edge is chipped.

Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Mid grey and mid red in colour. Unifacial retouching present on the dorsal surface along both lateral margins

Broken silcrete blade, medial portion remaining. Light grey in colour. Unifacial reworking present on the ventral surface along both lateral margins.

Silcrete core. Mid grey in colour

Complete silcrete blade. Mid grey and mid red in colour. Unifacial retouching present on the dorsal surface of the proper right lateral margin.

Silcrete core. Light grey in colour

Rourou (food bowl). Woven with ten whenu (strands) of harakeke (flax) from the centre outwards in a takitahi pattern. Completed by trimming left over whenu on the interior with outer whenu tucked back into the weave of the bowl. Tied with a small piece of harakeke to secure. Four whenu are woven into a round four ply whiri (plait) used to make a handle. Rourou were frequently constructed as single or limited use items as they were quick and easy to weave.

Broken adze (butt and upper blade remaining). Cross-section roughly rectangular. Surface is mostly ground with some bruising and flaking on sides and back of butt. Minor differentiation between butt and blade, sides reduced. Bevel and cutting edge not present. "P" written on back, "Pareora" written on front.

Worked pounamu. The cross section is lenticular. The surface is lightly ground on the front and on the roughed out bevel. There is flaking around the sides and on the back.

Broken adze (poll end remaining). Cross-section is oval. Surface is mostly ground on front and back, with bruising on sides. Sides of fragment taper towards poll. "P" written on back. "Pareora" written on front.

Broken adze (fragment of lower blade). Cross-section is rectangular. Surface ground on front, bruised on back and sides. Butt not present. Bevel is demarcated by a line, cutting edge not present. "Pareora" written on front.

Piece of worked pounamu, ground on three sides, other surfaces are broken and bruised. One side is worked at an angle, possibly the bevel of an adze?

Broken sinker, fragments missing from one side and end, with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete sinker with faint quartered lashing grooves.

Complete sinker with shallow transverse lashing groove.

Complete adze. Light green pounamu. Surface is ground and bruised. Cross-section is lenticular. Sides of the butt are reduced to form shoulders and taper toward the poll. Bevel is continuous with the blade. Cutting edge is curved and sharp. "North Canterbury." inscription.