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Broken slate knife, small portion of cutting edge remaining. Cutting edge is sharp and chipped. Surface is bruised. Bevel is present at cutting edge.

Complete slate knife. Cutting edge is blunt. Surface is ground on one side and bruised on the other. Usewear is present on cutting edge, flaking present at haft edge.

Schist file. Mid grey and silver in colour. Surface is ground. Cross section is lenticular. One side edge is curved, flaring out in the centre with a notch. The other side edge is straight. Proximal end is squared off, tapered to a dull point at the distal end.

Complete adze. Light brown pounamu. The cross-section is quadrangular. The surface is mostly unworked with some ground and flaked areas. There is a reduction in the sides of the butt on the back. The bevel is demarcated by a ridge and the change in surface from ground to flaked. The cutting edge is straight and sharp with flake scars on both corners.

Silcrete core mid grey colour. Unifacial retouch around edges.

Small grindstone made of sandstone. Ground and flat on front. Bruising on proximal and distal ends. Deep groove on proper left side and two shallower grooves on the back side. Tapered to one end.

Complete stone sinker. Suspension hole drilled from one side, diameter of 18mm at entry and 9mm at exit.

Fragment of a schist knife,no discernable edge. Surface is grounded on both sides, with flake scarring on both surfaces.

Dark grey schist file, tapered to point at one end.

Pakohu/argillite pendant. Dark grey with a ground surface. Wedge in cross section. Proximal end is tapered and has a deep groove and shallower cutting marks for lashing. One side edge is flattened and the other comes to a blunt edge. Distal end is oblique and chipped, with a bevel on one side, indicating that this may have been reworked from an adze.