Broken Glass and Burned Wood
Thanks to my hardy volunteers from the University of Auckland, excavation of the trench fronting the British camp is proceeding at speed. Within the trench we are still not finding […]
Thanks to my hardy volunteers from the University of Auckland, excavation of the trench fronting the British camp is proceeding at speed. Within the trench we are still not finding […]
The most important paddock in the north. Courtesy of the Northern Advocate and Lindy Laird.
Because military campsites typically contain few artefacts, or the artefacts are concentrated at discrete locations, mechanical topsoil stripping over camp sites is recommended by archaeologists experienced with this type of […]
Pre-modern military camps make for difficult archaeology. The American experience, based on attempts to identify and investigate military camps (typically from the Civil War), even historically well-attested ones, is that […]
I hadn’t realised just how long it had been since I had last posted here. Its been a busy year on the home front as Quincy has blossomed into a […]
Last thursday night, as a gift that keeps on giving, the kind folks at AMP flew the whanau down to Auckland for the annual AMP National Awards dinner (check out […]
Yesterday, DOC staff kindly mowed the grass on the British camp for me. While Maria and Joe worked on the plantings around the carpark and the advanced position, where the […]
Last night Emma, Quincy and I attended the AMP Adviser Business Scholarship award ceremony in Whangarei. Every year, AMP and its partners provide several hundred thousand dollars of funding to […]
I took Charlie up to Ruapekapeka for the first time last week. It was a stunning spring afternoon, sunny but windy, as it almost always is at Ruapekapeka. Charlie fell […]
Ruapekapeka Pa and the associated battlefield are located east of Towai, between Whangarei and Kawakawa in Northland. The known features of the battleground are Ruapekapeka Pa itself (recorded archaeological site […]