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Submitted by DrewParsons on Tuesday, 13 January 2015  Page Views: 141470

DigsSite Name: Sandy Bay
Country: New Zealand
NOTE: This site is 592.835 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Invercargill
Latitude: 50.50013S  Longitude: 166.279540E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
 1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
 5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
 1 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Sandy Bay
Sandy Bay submitted by DrewParsons : Sandy Bay site photographed on a voyage to The Auckland Islands and Campbell Island in January 2015 (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Settlement on Enderby Island, NZ's Sub Antarctic Islands. Photograph opposite taken by Drew Parsons in January 2015 during an expedition trip to the islands. The huts are Department of Conservation sheds.

Sandy Bay is located on the sheltered southern side of Enderby Island in the uninhabited Auckland Islands group of New Zealand's Sub Antarctic region. The site was a short term habitation by a small group of Maoris with radio carbon dated material from excavated middens dated to around 1200 AD. This early date shows that early Polynesians travelled far to the south of New Zealand during their initial settlement of the country. There are exhibits relating to this site in Invercargill at the Southland Museum and Art Gallery. There is no trace of the site today on this wild and remote fur seal and sea lion inhabited beach only reachable by expedition ship from New Zealand some 465 kilometres away. The paper entitled "In Care of the Southern Ocean - An Archaeological and Historical Survey of the Auckland Islands" edited by Paul R. Dingwall, Kevin l. Jones and Rachael Egerton has detailed information about the excavations and schedules of radio carbon datings.
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Re: Sandy Bay by Anonymous on Thursday, 10 September 2015
Hi Drew,
I am very impressed by your access to history and renderings of what used to be.

I am involved planning a major project which seeks to tune into ancient thinking and re creating many of the things done in the past and basing it on practical dynamics. I believe the new discoveries at Durrington Walls re-inforce my views of the use of such areas for practical agricultural processes. Near to me here in Hampshire England is a henge site at Clatford and adjacent is a specially shaped field designed I believe to accommodate pigs so they could have their share of the harvest without being moved around away from the site. The pigs I believe were also used for disposal of waste of al sorts and I have seen this applied in the jungles of south America recently. I have a picture I took of a tamed peccary (a useful pet) with a pet spider monkey on its back !.

Please get in touch

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Graham Burgess.

ps my late partner and Anderson was a Kiwi.
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