Abstract
This report presents a summary of field work carried out on Whenua Hou in 2019, outlining monitoring of known archaeological sites and the identification and recording of several new sites. Existing records for Whenua Hou exemplified several of the historical issues associated with the development of the New Zealand Archaeological Association (NZAA) Site Recording Scheme (SRS) and the digital transfer to the ArchSite platform, including ‘missing’ ArchSite numbers, silent files, incomplete records, and ‘lost’ files. In 2019 the NZAA Walton Fund provided a grant towards field work focused on ensuring that the information in the SRS for Whenua Hou was current and relevant to management of the island landscape.