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Taoka Maori
Adze roughout. Dark grey stone. Cross-section is asymmetrical. Surface is flaked with some grounding on the back. Sides are slightly reduced where the butt meets the blade. Bevel is demarcated by a change in surface from flake scars to grounding. Cutting edge is rounded but unfinished.
Adze roughout. Dark grey stone. Cross-section is triangular. Surface is flaked. Front and sides are slightly reduced on the butt. Bevel is unfinished. Cutting edge is curved but unfinished.
Broken silcrete blade, medial portion remaining. Mid grey and mid red in colour.
Light brown and mid brown Flake. Cortex present on dorsal surface. Unifacial retouch on dorsal surface.
Dark brown core. Cortex present.
Silcrete core. Light brown and mid brown in colour. Cortex present.
Silcrete core. Light grey and light brown in colour.
Broken rock blade, missing proximal portion. Light grey and dark grey in colour.
Broken silcrete blade, proximal portion remaining. Unifacial retouch on the proper right later margin on the ventral surface.
Broken adze, fragment of cutting edge remaining. Surface is ground, with some bruising. What remains of cutting edge is sharped and curved.
Complete silcrete blade that is cream and light grey in colour. There is flaking on the distal portion on both surfaces. There is unifacial retouching on the proper right lateral margin on the dorsal surface.
Broken silcrete blade that has the distal portion present. It is light grey and mid brown in colour. There is flaking across the dorsal surface.