| Feature: | Heiau, undefined place |
| Comments: | Place described as the location of a heiau by archaeologist Winslow Walker following a survey of Kaupo in 1929: "Heiau at Opihi. Location: On the flat country above Puu Maneoneo looking down toward Nuu. Description: A large open platform of rough lava with several enclosures on it. The boundaries are very hard to determine, but its general dimensions are 210 x 145 feet. It is terraced only at the S.E. corner in three tiers. A large walled structure (A) stands out prominently at the back. The front of the platform has a series of rooms whose walls can be seen only faintly above the mass of rock debris. The enclosure B on the plan is 35 feet square and has a carefully paved floor of small rocks, pebbles, and coral fragments. The wall is only 3 feet high. Above this enclosure is a curious L-shaped trench 3 feet wide and 20 feet long. This was filled with stones which when cleared away revealed a floor at 2 feet depth paved with smooth flat stones. The pavement ends abruptly about half way along the trench and the other end was found to extend around the corner where it ended against the stone wall. The platform formed by the wall and the sides of the trench is 8 feet thick, but no pavement was found under it. The trench had been filled evidently intentionally nearly to the top as were several others beyond it to the west. Very likely this indicates two periods of construction of the heiau, such as we are told of by Thrum in speaking of Liholiho's tour of Maui in 1801 for the purpose of reconsecrating many of the old heiaus. At the S.W. corner is another enclosure, C, evidently a house site. A path of stepping stones runs along the south terrace, passes the house site, and curves past the large enclosure until it meets a stone wall north of it. Several burial platforms are to be seen below the terrace." Spelled "Opuohi" in Royal Patent Grant 3460 (1889). |
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