Ngā Tohuwhenua Mai Te Rangi: A New Zealand Archeology in Aerial Photographs
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The beach front and edge of the high terrace at Nukutaurua, Māhia Peninsula
On the edge of the high terrace are three pā: Pari o Kena at left, Waipuna at centre, and Maungakahia, a pā defended by Kahungūnu, at right. On the high terrace at left and right of centre are ditch and bank enclosures. At far right on the coast is a landing place of Tākitimu, a whare wānanga site associated with that canoe, and a surviving pūriri tree planted at the time of landing.
The ditch and bank fences and nineteenth-century Maori settlement show clearly. The largest fence enclosure surrounds the site of a kāinga of the 1840s. The earth-walled outline of houses and raised-rim storage pits show within the enclosure. The second, smaller enclosure was probably a stockyard of later age.