Post by Brent George on Sept 3, 2023 19:58:43 GMT
Company admits damaging 'nationally significant' archaeological site
Stuff - Marlborough: 4-Sept-2023
A company has admitted damaging a “nationally significant” archaeological site days after agreeing not to when officials came investigating.
The officials had been tipped off about earthworks at the site on Marlborough’s Wairau Bar, a site known as “New Zealand's most significant archaeological landscape” as moa bones and adzes found there were thought to date back to the 1200s.
The company was charged with modifying one or more archaeological sites without the authority of Heritage NZ, which it admitted at the Blenheim District Court on August 11.
Stuff - Marlborough: 4-Sept-2023
A company has admitted damaging a “nationally significant” archaeological site days after agreeing not to when officials came investigating.
The officials had been tipped off about earthworks at the site on Marlborough’s Wairau Bar, a site known as “New Zealand's most significant archaeological landscape” as moa bones and adzes found there were thought to date back to the 1200s.
The company was charged with modifying one or more archaeological sites without the authority of Heritage NZ, which it admitted at the Blenheim District Court on August 11.