More moa bones have been excavated from a newly found deposit in northern Rangitikei.
The site, in a farm valley south of Taihape, is a former wetland with bones buried under the ash layer from the Taupo eruption 1800 years ago.
The moa bone deposit was discovered earlier this year by a farmer.
A party from Victoria University of Wellington's Maori studies department spent a week excavating the site in May, finding about 80 bones.
They were back last weekend, joined by Whanganui Regional Museum natural history curator Mike Dickison, when about 40 more bones plus fragments were dug up. "It's really quite exciting," he said. "From our point of view it was about recovering the bones."