The old sites
Named ruins and archaeological sites as the open map records them, 13 archaeological sites and 11 ruins inside the city boundary. Pā sites, hut sites, gun emplacements, what stood on this ground before. The register proper lives at /history.
What the record says
- All 13 of the archaeological sites carry Māori names, 12 of them mapped as fortifications, the defended ground the peninsula remembers: Kaitara, Ōhinetahi, Ōnawe among them.
- 4 of the ruins are the war’s own, Anti Aircraft Battery (Historic), Battery Observation Post III, Erskine Point Battery (Historic) and Mount Pleasant World War Ⅱ 3.7″ Anti-aircraft Battery, gun posts and a lookout left in place.
- Ōnawe Pā keeps its history in its other name, the map records it as “Onawe Pa sieged in 1832”.
- One record keeps its own doubt, Old Godley head lighthouse structure?, question mark and all.
Where they lie
OpenStreetMap’s own pins and outlines, a lead to what stood, not a surveyed boundary. Many are delicate ground; the pin is not an invitation.
The sites
Questions, answered briefly
13 named archaeological sites and 11 named ruins inside the city boundary: plus 136 more drawn without a name: pā sites, hut sites, gun emplacements, the things that stood before.
No, the register of listed places lives at /history, sourced from Heritage New Zealand and the district plan. This roll is the open map’s own record of old sites, a lead, not a listing.
OpenStreetMap: named nodes and ways tagged historic=ruins or historic=archaeological_site inside the city boundary (ODbL). A name is the mapper’s; the fuller record is the register’s.
The record behind this
Named nodes and ways tagged historic=ruins or historic=archaeological_site on OpenStreetMap, inside the city boundary (ODbL). A name is the mapper’s, a lead, not a register listing.
This page as markdown: /site.md · the sites as data: /peaks.geojson · /peaks.json · on the big map: /map?layer=peaks · the register: /history · every roll, counted: /geography.