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made of a hard blackisli chertose rock, of which two were finely finislied, 

 whilst the two others were only prepared for the polishing process by being 

 cleverly chipped so as to assume the intended form. 



These stone adzes are twelve inches long, and proportionately broad and 

 thick. From the manner of their occurrence, as explained to me by the dis- 

 coverer, it is evident that they had been placed in a cache dug for the purpose, 

 just in the same manner as the chipped specimens of Palla described in my 

 first paper, were hidden close by. 



On the south-western side, jiist outside the line of moa ovens, a large 

 square rubbing-stone, made of coarsely-grained sandstone, twelve inches long 

 and four inches broad and deep, together with some other stone implements, 

 ■were dug up, evidently forming also the contents of a cache. Some of the 

 latter consisted of small chisels and gouges of distinct patterns, without doubt 

 specially adapted for some peculiar kind of work. 



Some of the smaller implements are made of a greyish chert, such as is 

 found on the Nelson side of the Dun Mountain range. I am not aware 

 whence the black chertose schist can have been obtained, but suspect that it 

 has also been brought by the Maoris from a considerable distance. 



A little away from this latter cache a piece of nephritic schist was obtained, 

 ten inches long, four inches broad, and two to three inches thick. There had 

 never been an attempt made to work it, without doubt owing to its inferior 

 quality. 



Amongst the other objects found is a sinker, made of white compact lime- 

 stone, such as is of frequent occurrence north of the Kowhai, in the so-called 

 Weka Pass formation. It is egg-shaped, with a depression for the insertion of 

 a fastening string all round its longer axis. 



Below the upper terrace, on the second fiat, before the land was broken up, 

 I observed on my first visit that a hut had been standing here, about fifteen 

 feet long and - seven feet broad, with an opening towards the north. The 

 outlines were shown by the floor being raised above the surrounding flat. 

 The plough, in effacing all traces of these contour lines, had exposed the spot 

 where the former cooking place in this hut had been situated. Here the soil 

 was baked to a hard cemented mass, containing small pieces of charcoal, bones, 

 either broken or entire, of fishes and small birds, together with a few fragments 

 of polished stone implements, but not the least sign of moa bones, flint 

 implements, or chips amongst them. On the same terrace, in two localities, 

 cemented masses of the same kind proved the former existence of similar 

 cooking places. 



In the neighbourhood of the hut four human bones were also exposed bv 

 the plough, consisting of two tibia, one femur, and one humerus, all belonging 

 to the same individual, a full-grown man. Each of these bones had its 



