Area 1746 - damaged platform
1902 hits
US Navy archaeologists maintain that these were not Hawaiian pre-contact structures. They were bulldozed to clear lead shotgun pellets from an area used as a trap and skeet shooting range - even though they lay at the far periphery, and even though the area was designated as one of the very last preserves for the endangered Oʻahu akoko plant. In this image a damaged platform lies adjacent to an intact platform - shown in another image in this album.
Makai of revetments - a walled sinkhole
2426 hits
Possibly a water source, access to the underground streams that once flowed through the porous limestone from the distant mountains to the sea.
Area 1736 - upright and ahu
2061 hits
Note the two large slabs lying together in front of the upright - perhaps a suggestion of a kohe (vagaina) in connection with the ule (penis, upright). Such male / female (Wakea / Papa, Kū / Hina) pairings are not uncommon - as seen at the heiau in area 1752 a little distance to the west of this complex.
Area 1736 - walled enclosure
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