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The Bukit Brown Cemetery (in operation between the years 1922-1973) was said to be the largest Chinese cemetery outside of China and was Singapore’s first municipal Chinese cemetery. In 2011 the Singapore government announced a plan to... more
The Bukit Brown Cemetery (in operation between the years 1922-1973) was said to be the largest Chinese cemetery outside of China and was Singapore’s first municipal Chinese cemetery. In 2011 the Singapore government announced a plan to build a 4-lane road through the cemetery in order to improve future traffic congestion in the area; the planned road construction was estimated to affect 5% of 100,000 graves in the cemetery. A Bukit Brown Documentation project was set up thereafter to document the affected graves, the rituals, and social memory of the site.
This paper outlines the ways in which the members of the Archaeology team (ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute) have contributed towards documentation of the affected graves at the site since 2012, particularly in terms of artefact cataloguing and ensuring conservation protocols. Between December 2013 and December 2014, over 4,500 graves (containing over 3,500 artefacts) were documented during their exhumation process.