Moncks Cave News Today

Unpicking the startling history of Bill Hammond's strange half-human half-avian paintings.

THE PRESS 160 YEARS is a series marking the launch of The The Press will revisit stories from every year of publication. Archaeology could be exciting, as The Press demonstrated on October 8, 1889, when it told Christchurch readers about a major find in Moncks Cave​ near Redcliffs. “The discovery was made accidentally through the removal of material which was needed for the Sumner road. The opening was laid bare and almost the first person to enter was the son of the proprietor. He saw...