Post by NZBC on Aug 9, 2007 21:34:00 GMT 12
Monday March 28, 3:01 PM
By Indo-Asian News Service
Wellington, March 28 (IANS) Archaeologists working on a site in a remote town in New Zealand have unearthed an old Chinese camp, Xinhua reports.
The camp, located in a remote Otago paddock on the South Island, was the place where thousands of Chinese converged when they went overseas as gold field labourers in the 1860s. The site was the gateway to the Otago gold fields.
Archaeologists from Otago University and Historic Places Trust said they had unearthed at the site what looked like a really well formed cobbled pathway, with carefully laid stones.
The Lawrence Chinese Camp Trust plans to restore this site and create a major visitor destination, including a hotel, on the site.
"It will give more information about the history of Chinese camp as well as New Zealand with the continuation of works on the site," said a trust official.
By Indo-Asian News Service
Wellington, March 28 (IANS) Archaeologists working on a site in a remote town in New Zealand have unearthed an old Chinese camp, Xinhua reports.
The camp, located in a remote Otago paddock on the South Island, was the place where thousands of Chinese converged when they went overseas as gold field labourers in the 1860s. The site was the gateway to the Otago gold fields.
Archaeologists from Otago University and Historic Places Trust said they had unearthed at the site what looked like a really well formed cobbled pathway, with carefully laid stones.
The Lawrence Chinese Camp Trust plans to restore this site and create a major visitor destination, including a hotel, on the site.
"It will give more information about the history of Chinese camp as well as New Zealand with the continuation of works on the site," said a trust official.