Melaka

Malacca, Malaysia

Q: Is it legal to collect at Malacca, Malaysia: Pulau Melaka and the rocky shore, sultanate port shards?

Prohibited, look only. National Heritage Act 2005 s.47: any discovery must be reported to the district officer or heritage commissioner; Pulau Melaka site closed by Perzim and the heritage department

Q: What can you find at Malacca, Malaysia: Pulau Melaka and the rocky shore, sultanate port shards?

Ming blue and white, Song and Yuan stoneware, Malacca tin coins, VOC duits, Portuguese coins, ship timber

Pulau Melaka and the rocky shore, sultanate port shards

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsProhibited, look only

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea pottery

Coins and tokens

Wreck timber

Also reported: Ming blue and white, VOC duits.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), West Yorkshire Archaeology Advisory Service, Amy Downes, (CC BY-SA 2.0), NPS photo (Public domain).

Why this spot

Malacca Sultanate 1400-1511, Portuguese and Dutch port; reclamation and water level change expose cargo and coins.

Malay Mail 2020: anglers and public found Song-Ming ceramics, Sultan Mahmud era coins, Portuguese and Dutch coins and ship timbers on Pulau Melaka; Gotheborg Q&A: hobbyist collected mid-Ming and early Qing blue and white on a Malacca rocky shoreView source →