The Singapore Botanical Gardens, National Parks Board wanted to study several cultural features in the vicinity of the Jacob Ballas Children’s Garden, and invited archaeologists to investigate the site. A documentation survey involved the removal of overburden to determine the extant of the three Chinese tombs and concrete structures in the garden. One of the tombs dated to 1842 and is the oldest remaining in-situ Chinese grave in Singapore. Another tomb dates to 1881 while the third remains unknown. A bomb shelter was uncovered along the slopes of the garden and partially buried by five decades worth of domestic rubbish dumped by the janitors of the Raffles College and University of Malaya. This shelter was constructed sometime just before the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific, and is uniquely built for the safekeeping of materials or records rather than as a shelter for humans.