| Collection |
FSA (unaccessioned) General |
| Description |
Several gizzard stones from moa. These were found on Dog Hill by Jack Taylor while ploughing about 1988. They were scattered over an area of approximately one metre.
"Throughout these hills [Pelorus Sound] have been dug up old greenstone relics, the bones of the extinct moa, and the curious polished marbles of clear and bright stone smoothed and rounded by being picked up by the great bird and carried for years in its crop. For, just as a hen eats grit, the moa swallowed lumps of quartz as big as a bantam's egg, and now, wherever a moa died, the plough turns up not only fragments of old bone, but a heap of shining stones." [Source: Strait of Adventure, Stephen Gerard, A.H. & A.W. Reed, Dunedin and Wellington, 1933, page 161]. |
| Object ID |
FSA0.800.0144 |
| Object Name |
Stone, Gizzard |
| People |
Taylor, Jack |
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