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Kōrero: Building stone

Stone wall, Poor Knights Islands

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Stone wall, Poor Knights Islands

Although Māori did not use stone for buildings, they often built stone walls. This is the remains of a defence at a fortified village in the Poor Knights Islands, Northland.

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by Bruce Hayward

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Simon Nathan rāua ko Bruce Hayward, Building stone – Stone buildings in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/8064/stone-wall-poor-knights-islands (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Simon Nathan rāua ko Bruce Hayward, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009.