Ngā Tohuwhenua Mai Te Rangi: A New Zealand Archeology in Aerial Photographs
Kākāramea Redoubt, near Pātea, built in 1866
Kākāramea Redoubt, near Pātea, built in 1866
The redoubt is pentagonal in layout with bastions on two sides (at right and left) and flanking angles (at the other corners). It is about 50 m across in its greatest dimension. The trench running out to the right of the photograph is a communication trench to huts dug into the slope at right. The site was part of the military settlement of this part of south Taranaki.