PYRAMID VALLEY EXPEDITION
Few Skeletons Found A five-day excavation at Pyramid Valley this month proved sterile, compared with the findings of moa skeletons in 1957 and earlier, the director of the Canterbury Museum (Dr. R, S. Duff) reported to the Museum Trust Board. The most recent excavation was carried out from March 12 to March 17 by Mr R. J. Scarlett, assisted by three members of the Canterbury Museum Archaeological Society. Excavations from 1938 to 1957 at Pyramid Valley had recovered 166 skeletons to establish this as the most important swamp deposit of moa remains in New Zealand, said Dr. Duff. Dr. Duff said that this latest visit, which would be followed on Sunday by a working-bee by volunteers from the Science Society of the University of Canterbury,
was’ a preliminary to a ftillscale expedition early next year. During recent summers the swamp had proved too wet in January when the main body of volunteers was available.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30094, 30 March 1963, Page 14
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