A guided walk up the Tararu Valley (Victoria Street extension). Following the old tramway route (partly, now the road) participants will visit the sites of the following stamper batteries; Bleazard’s reduction works, Brown and Campbells, Flora McDonalds, Russell’s, Wild Missouri, and the Sylvia battery. Start / End point: Dickson Holiday Park car park, Victoria Street
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As part of Echo Walks Festival and New Zealand Archaeology Week, local archaeologist Dave Wilton, of The Treasury, will guide a walk around the historic locations of Hall's Arboretum (established 1870s) and Parawai Mission Station (established 1837). Halls Arboretum is an important NZ scientific site, as it was a key reference site in the 1913
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Join the Mercury Bay Library and Mercury Bay Museum as we learn to excavate, sift, sort and recreate like an archaeologist. Archaeologists learn a lot from pottery fragments found in sites. Shape, material and decoration can reveal a vessels construction, function and age! Join us to ‘dig up’ a pot and see if you can
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