Leave artefacts to experts

People who find possible historical artefacts are reminded to leave them for the experts, after pieces of wood from a historic shipwreck were removed from a beach.

A man in Anaura Bay, north of Gisborne, found three pieces of wood containing five bronze nails believed to date to the mid-1800s, the Dominion Post reported yesterday.

He may have destroyed valuable information about the artefacts by removing them, NZ Historic Places Trust senior archaeologist Dr Rick McGovern-Wilson said.