Dr Neville Ritchie qualified as an archaeologist at the University of Otago in 1968. He retired in 2018 after 32 years with the Department of Conservation, Hamilton as Regional Archaeologist. His major research projects have been on the Chinese miners in Central Otago, the archaeology of Scott’s and Shackleton’s huts in Antarctica and the New Zealand Wars; Ian Barton is a retired forestry consultant, he has written or edited several books about the North Waikato region including Auckland’s South Eastern Bulwark: A History of the Hunua Ranges and The Shuker Story: From Shropshire to Otaua, 1913–2013. He was a founding member of the Queen’s Redoubt Trust.