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Broken adze, butt remaining. Black and light brown stone. Cross-section is round on the butt and rectangular on the blade. Surface is ground and bruised. Sides of the butt are slightly reduced to form shoulders and front of the butt slopes to the poll. Cutting edge is curved and blunt and appears to have been reground, with a bevel that is continuous with the blade. "Waimera [Waiwera], South" inscription on front.

Incomplete adze, bevel and blade only. Black stone. Triangular cross-section with apex to the front. The surface is smooth and bruised, with flake scars at the broken end and the cutting edge. The bevel is continuous with the blade and only differentiated from the blade by its smooth surface. Narrow flaked cutting edge.

Broken adze (Upper blade and butt remaining). Stone. Black. Cross-section is trapezoidal with back narrower than front. Surface of sides and front of upper blade is ground, rest is bruised. Minor differentiation between butt and blade, sides reduced forming small shoulder. Butt widens at poll forming two lugs on corner of poll. Bevel and cutting edge not present. Waiwera South written on front and back.

Complete adze. Pounamu. Light green. Cross-section of blade is rectangular, cross-section of butt is oval. Surface of blade is ground, surface of butt is bruised. Minor differentiation between butt and blade, sides slightly reduced. Bevel is continuous with blade, cutting edge is sharp and straight, chipped along cutting edge. Waiwera Sth written on back.

Complete adze. Stone. Dark grey. Cross-section is oval. Surface of blade is ground, surface of butt is flaked. Undifferentiated between butt and blade, shape of back of butt is concave. Bevel is concave. Cutting edge is sharp and very curved. Waiwera Sth. written on proper right side.

Complete pounamu pendant. Dark green with high translucency. Surface is ground with some bruising. Proximal end is rounded, with a suspension hole drilled mostly from one side. One side edge has a notch and a projection, possibly representing a face with a nose or beak? Distal edge has two projections with an indentation inbetween.