There are 2 walking tracks near the cache, if you have time take walk along at least one. Please read the notice board on site for more info.
A redoubt is a fort or fort system usually consisting of an enclosed defensive emplacement outside a larger fort, usually relying on earthworks.
This large redoubt, on the right bank of the Lower Waikato, was built in July, 1863, by a detachment of the 65th Regiment. The position, on a bold bluff about 300 feet above the river, was commanding and of great strategic importance. The redoubt is the best preserved of all the military posts built in 1863–64. The present entrance is from the roadway in the rear into the north-west flanking angle, where a monument erected by the Government bears the names of British soldiers who fell in the district. The redoubt covers an area of about three-quarters of an acre, and is a parallelogram, with the usual two flanking angles at diagonally opposite corners of the work. The surrounding trench is still in most places 4 feet or 5 feet in depth, and from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the fern-grown parapets the height varies from 10 feet to nearly 20 feet.
One of the best preserved earthworks of the New Zealand Wars, built by the Armed Constabulary in 1863 when Pirongia was garrisoned during the Te Kooti campaigns.
It was intended as a place of refuge for local families. There is still a full two metres of escarpment from the bottom of the ditch to the top of the bank. It is easier here than anywhere else to appreciate how redoubts were built.
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