Dave Veart - the Otuataua stonefields

credit: https://humanrights.co.nz/2016/09/23/aucklands-latest-human-rights-issue-ihumatao-and-the-otuataua-stonefields/

During the early years of European settlement, Maori gardens that are now part of the Otuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve were supplying food to the growing settlement of Auckland as well as to Sydney. credit: RNZ / Tim Watkin

Drystone wall in the Ōtuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve / credit: Bryndlefly / CC BY SA 2.0

Dave Veart reckons the Otuataua stonefields are one of New Zealand's most important archaeological sites.credit: RNZ / Tim Watkin

Otuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve as seen by pioneering aerial photographer Geoff Fairfield.in the 1930s, acres of Maori stone built garden structures.

Maori garden enclosures Puketutu island, now destroyed. Geoff Fairfield.

Puketutu garden enclosures, now quarried away -Geoff Fairfield.

Maori stone built garden structures, now in Otuataua Historic Reserve adjacent to planned development - Geoff Fairfield.

Maungataketake, the biggest pa in the area, still largely intact in 1970, now a hole in the ground, quarried away - Geoff Fairfield.