Report on Archaeological Monitoring
11KV STAGE 4, PORT OF LYTTELTON, LYTTELTON: REPORT ON ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONITORING HNZPT AUTHORITY 2015/600EQ LUKE TREMLETT, MARIA LILLO BERNABEU AND LYDIA MEARNS UNDERGROUND OVERGROUND ARCHAEOLOGY LTD MAY 2017 UNPUBLISHED REPORT FOR LYTTELTON PORT COMPANY INTRODUCTION As part of a post-earthquake repair and upgrade of the Lyttelton Port facilities, trenching was carried out in the port for an 11kV infrastructure roll-out. Stage 4 of these works involved the excavation for a substation at 7 Norwich Quay and a 50 m trench from 7 Norwich Quay southeast to the Oxford Street overbridge in November 2016 (Figure 1). This work was carried out under Heritage New Zealand authority 2015/600, as it had the potential to affect seven recorded archaeological sites. As per condition 2 of this authority, and in accordance with ‘LPC CEMP Guidelines Archaeology Technical Chapter’, these earthworks were monitored by an archaeologist. This report outlines the results of the monitoring, during which several archaeological sites were exposed. Figure 1. Lyttelton, showing the location of 7 Norwich Quay. Image: Google Maps. 1 Figure 2. 7 Norwich Quay prior to the earthworks. Image: Google Earth. HISTORY OF THE PORT1 Formed from the remnants of an extinct volcano, Lyttelton harbour has been the site of human activity for over 800 years (Rice 2004:14). Prior to European settlement the harbour was known as Whakaraupō, or harbour of raupō (Burgess th 2009:7). The first occupants of the area were Waitaha, followed by Ngāti Mamoe in the 16 century (Anderson 1998:22-23). For Ngāti Mamoe the area surrounding Lyttelton, which they named Ōhinehou, was a mahinga kai.
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