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  ST. ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL SITE 2003-2004
  Introduction | Fort Canning | Fort Tanjong Katong | Istana Kampong Glam | Palmer Road | Padang | St. Andrew's Cathedral | Others
   
 

St. Andrew’s Cathedral Photo Gallery

Uncle Shah, Ching Huei and Andy discuss excavation strategies by a unit.

Surface Finds: 19th Century ceramics.

 

Auger testing for modern soil disturbances and a peek beneath the ground.

Modern drainage pipe in one of the units.

Cache of 19th Century glass and ceramic bottles.

Queen Victoria 1845 One Cent.

Mystery unfired clay disk on a plaster of Chunam.

Yuan Dynasty Cash!

14th Century Celadon bowl.

 

19th Century course of bricks. Possibly a path or carriage way.

Intact stoneware vessel! A rare find indeed in Singapore.

Another intact stoneware vessel in situ. Possibly 14th Century.

Stoneware vessel removed from the South Lawn.

World War II vintage small arms ammunition, possibly Enfield 303.

Almost complete "Mercury Jar" stoneware vessel.

Meifeng hard at work on the screens.

Colonial and pre-colonial coins.

Military Insignia, possibly early 20th Century.

Unidentified Blue and White bowl.

Salvage Pit 1000. The dark sediments are the pre-colonial layer (c.14th century).

Young volunteers at work.

Inspection of the sticky goo found in Salavge Pit 1000.

Excavation continues rain, sun and sleet!

St.Andrew's Cathedral sits atop a rich reservoir archaeological finds.