Reconstruction of Fort Alice being undertaken as authentically as possible

The restoration of Fort Alice at Sri Aman began with it being taken apart.

THE restoration of Sri Aman’s Fort Alice, built 150 years ago, is likely unprecedented in this part of the world as far as its level of attention to details go.

Workers on site are using replicas of the traditional tools originally used to build the structure. Perhaps the most odd-looking one is the adze — an ancient edging implement to smoothen or carve wood, believed to have been first used during the Mesolithic times.