It IS my friggin island! Where do I make a claim?

[willytheekid]

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6624...and-first-book

Bag's the south island!...I got in first!...its mine! (claim has already lodged...well...in my head...so no dought it will be lost )

[SMOKEU]

Just wait till old Hone releases a statement to dispute those claims.

[slofox]

I see Noel Hilliam is one of the authors...I met him a few times years ago. Interesting claim - but then Noel always was partial to weird theories...

[george formby]

Their is a load of stuff lying about which indicates pre-Maori, Moriori, Waitaha settlement. A lady up the road from me has made a life long passion of fossicking in the bush, no sniggering at the back!
Her house is crammed with artifacts, many of which are celtic to the untrained eye (mine). She told me of finding the ruins of a stone barrow in the Puketi forest, very un-Maori. When DOC & local Iwi were informed they bull dozed it almost immediately. Go figure.
She has always come across as perfectly normal & has an open mind on NZ colonisation but resents the lack of debate & the almost brick wall mentality of DOC & Iwi up here.

I also know that Tane Mahuta is NOT the biggest Kauri in Waipoua forest but just try & find out more about the really big tree. Same culprits but a better motive, it's to protect the tree.

Who knows what happened in the past, we need Arthur C Clarke on the case.

[Zedder]

I haven't heard of the Puketi Forest story but do know about the rock formations at Maunganui Bluff that are said to be of Celtic origin.

[Shadowjack]

She told me of finding the ruins of a stone barrow in the Puketi forest, very un-Maori. When DOC & local Iwi were informed they bull dozed it almost immediately. Go figure. .

I immediately thought "wheel-barrow" ?? - but then enlightenment hit, and I realised you might've been referring to a heaped construction built of earth and stone (thank you, Time Team), and for some reason, kept seeing dead people...am I right?

[george formby]

I immediately thought "wheel-barrow" ?? - but then enlightenment hit, and I realised you might've been referring to a heaped construction built of earth and stone (thank you, Time Team), and for some reason, kept seeing dead people...am I right?

Exacary. Chocolate fish & a Briscoes voucher in the post.

Nice thought, though. Paleolithic wheel barrow found in woods North West of Kerikeri . Was this the start of the annual Kerikeri garden safari one wonders?