Mar 26, 2019
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The fossickers, Lightning Ridge
The Fossickers, pt 2
I'm so fed up with this "fossickers culture"
Greymouth fossickers returning artefacts
New Zealanders are an honest bunch – that’s the recent experience of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT) after offering an amnesty to fossickers who return finds from an archaeological site – the former site of Selwyn Traders – in Greymouth.
“Two lots of artefacts have already been handed in to the Greymouth Police, including 16 pieces of worked pounamu that seem to date from the nineteenth century, and an intact bottle and pieces of ceramic,” NZHPT Archaeologist Dr Matthew Schmidt said today.
“The pounamu has definitely been worked and some pieces look as though they may have been worked with ‘modern’ tools, although modern means from the 1800s.”
Mawhera Incorporation, who are working closely with the NZHPT, collected the artefacts from police and delivered them to the Hokitika Museum. Read more.