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Fire plate, and fire stick. The fire plate is a flat wooden slab made of light coloured wood. Deep grooved in centre of plate with burn marks at one end. Burn marks in three places on side edges - two on right side U shaped indentation Polished on intact portions both edges. The fire stick is a rounded with blackened point with broken proximal end.

Roughout of side hafted adze. Dark grey and brown stone. Irregular quadrangular cross-section. The surface is bruised and flaked. There is a reduction in the sides of the stone half way up the blade. There is a slope on one side of the blade towards the cutting edge which could indicate a bevel. The cutting edge is irregular and blunt.

Unfinished chisel. Light grey/green stone. The cross-section is quadrangular. The surface is flaked except for the ground lower blade. There is no distinction between the butt and the blade. The bevel is demarcated by its smooth surface. The cutting edge is sharp, smooth and slightly curved.

Complete unfinished adze. Light grey/green stone. The cross-section is trapezoidal with the back narrower than the front. The surface is mostly bruised and flaked with a ground bevel and lower front of the blade. There is a reduction in the sides of the stone at the butt. The bevel is demarcated by the change of surface in an irregular line. The cutting edge is straight, smooth and sharp.