Middleburg Bastion, a section of once Famous A Famosa Fortress is near completion. Middleburg Bastion located beside Melaka River Bank beside the Tourist Information Center (TIC) at Banda Hilir. Next to it is the new completed Melaka River Watermill. The Bastion founded last year was and excavated by The Heritage Department, under the Culture, Arts and Heritage Ministry. Excavation teams from Malaysia University of Science (USM) also founded human skeletons when doing the excavation works. They estimated the age of the bones between 600 and 1,400 years old.
A Portuguese built Fort between 1512 to 1550 until the Dutch later added a structure which they named “Middleburg” Circa in late 1660 to 1670. A huge sewerage pipe dated 1895 also found. The Heritage Department will excavate and expose the southern side of the foundation of the fort’s walls and its six bastions before using laterite stones from Malacca’s Pulau Upeh to reconstruct the fort. The department will also conserve and restore the 23 historical structures within the fort’s confines.
Datuk Seet Har Cheow when interview by the Star said that the Bastion is scheduled to complete in this July. He said the ministry had allocated RM12.8mil for archaeological and restoration work including acquisition of the former Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank for use as a heritage centre.
The Star highlighted the discovery of the ruins, which resulted in a stop-work order and relocation of the RM23mil Taming Sari viewing tower two years ago.
Middleburg Bastion had a New Wall!
Workers at the Bastion, maybe they imagining live in the 15th Century.
Bastion was to hold attack from the river..
View from Tourist Information Center
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2 Responses to “Dutch Middleburg Bastion Near Completion”
- 1 Pingback on Jul 6th, 2008 at 11:42 am
thanks for this info. been seeing the works of the fort. at first wasnt too sure if its new or old. thumbs up for restoration works in malacca!