Fisher Road R11/887-9 2.8 × 6.0 (incl. porch of 1.4 m on south side)
Tamaki River R11/1506 3.5 × 4.0 (porch 0.8 m wide on south side)
3.4 × 2.8
3.5 × 3.0
? × 2.8
Westfield R11/898 7.2 × 3.2
Puriri T12/318 4.0 × 4.0(door to east)
Raupa T13/13 10.5 × 6.25
Whangapoua T11/644 4.0 × 2.75 (door to east)
3.0 × 2.75
One such excavated terrace on Motutapu Island had three separate and different periods of use. In the first occupation there was an open courtyard with a house and two pits around the edge. Some time later when all evidence of the house and pits was covered over, the terrace was a convenient place to sit and make stone adzes. At another time, hangi were dug. Houses were probably on the adjacent terraces (Leahy 1970, 1972).
Few houses have been excavated. They vary from temporary shelters to well constructed houses (see Table 1). Often there has been so much re-building and re-organisation of a settlement the posthole outline of individual houses is difficult to find among many apparently randomly patterned postholes.
Garden sites
Garden sites are difficult to find unless there are stone walls and mounds such as on the volcanic fields of East Tamaki and Otahuhu. In other places shallow parallel channels or ditches running down hillslopes may also indicate garden plots. Excavation may reveal that sand or gravel had been added to the clay soil to make it lighter, for example, at Rocky Bay on Waiheke Island or on Kauri Point pa, Bay of Plenty (Law 1975).
Artefact manufacturing places
Artefact manufacturing places such as stone workshops where adzes were shaped by flaking blocks of stone, and grinding grooves for shaping and sharpening adzes, are not common. Stone workshops are situated on various beaches on the east coast of the Coromandel Peninsula, and on Motutapu Island, Rakino Island and the shores of the Tamaki River. A number of the settlement sites from the 13th to 15th centuries have considerable evidence for the making of artefacts such as ornaments, fishhooks and adzes. Sites from later in time with similar evidence are very few and include Oruarangi and some of the other Waihou sites. The lack of flakes from later sites can be attributed to the use of different stone materials which could not be worked by the traditional
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