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Ōtuataua Stonefields

Historic reserve at Ihumātao on the Manukau Harbour, Māngere, Auckland, New Zealand: the last 100 ha of an estimated 8,000 ha of Māori stone gardens on Auckland's lava fields. Māori settled this coast as early as the 14th century; the stonefields were laid out in the 15th century as walls, windbreaks and drains for kūmara, taro, gourd and yam plots on the volcanic soil below the Ōtuataua cone, itself a fortified village. Confiscated after the 1863 Waikato invasion, rearranged by settler farmers, bought for a reserve in 2001. Coordinates: Wikidata -36.9858/174.7541, OSM -36.9829/174.7530.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1450 CE mainstream
  stone gardens laid out, 15th century (Mackintosh 2021) source
• 1863 CE mainstream
  land confiscated after the Invasion of the Waikato source
• 2001 CE mainstream
  purchased from four farming families; Ōtuataua Stonefields Historic Reserve created source

Where

36.9858° S, 174.7541° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihum%C4%81tao

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