GOOSE BAY MIDDEN
Museum Society Excavation
Goose Bay, 12 miles southwest of Kaikoura, will be the scene of intense activity next August, when the Canterbury Museum Archaelogical Society intendes to excavate a midden there. It is hoped that the midden will reveal much valuable information about early Maoris in the area and perhaps even moa hunters. On the week-end of May 27-28 the society will make preliminary investigations of the midden and the site will be prepared for excavation in August by laying down the system of digging. Members of the society will spend two weeks at the ■ site in August. The assistant museum officer and the leader of the society (Mr A. Eylesl said yesterday that a systematic investigation of the Kaikoura coast had been carried out for the last five years by the society. He said there was sufficient evidence at Goose Bay to indicate that the midden might ,j>e a comparative rarity ife that its strata might be perfectly preserved. There were other such sites in New Zealand; but works, weathering, and uninformed digging might have spoilt them, said Mr Eyles.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29504, 4 May 1961, Page 18
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184GOOSE BAY MIDDEN Press, Volume C, Issue 29504, 4 May 1961, Page 18
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