The Trilithon, Or Haamoga- A-Maui, Of Tonga
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AT the extreme east of the island of Tongatabu, near Niutoua, there is situated the famous trilithon known as the Haamoga-a-Maui.
This was built by the Tui Toga, Tuitatui, about the year 1200, prob ably as a gateway The uprights are nine feet high, above ground, five feet below ground.
The cross-piece is 16 feet in length
by five feet in breadth. The passage between the uprights is nine feet.
An Auckland civil engineer , who visited Tonga, on request of the Tonga Government, to report on metal for road formation, calculated that the two side pieces hold 600 cubic feet, or 183 tons; the top piece 140 cubic feet or tons—a total of 23i tons of coral
stone