香港政府
GIS 新聞處
SUNDAY
1976
DAILY INFORMATION BULLETIN'
HONG KONG'S ANCIENT ROCK CARVINGS
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HONG KONG'S UNIQUE ANCIENT ROCK CARVINGS, BELIEVED TO BE AROUND 3,000 YEARS OLD, ARE IN DANGER OF BEING DESTROYED BY NATURAL EROSION AND VANDALISM.
MOVES ARE NOW AFOOT BY THE URBAN COUNCIL'S MUSEUM OF HISTORY TO PROTECT THEM IN SITU AS AN IMPORTANT PART OF HONG KONG'S CULTURAL HERITAGE.
PRESENT PLANS INCLUDE PUTTING UP TEMPORARY FENCES TO THWART IRRESPONSIBLE PEOPLE FROM DEFACING THEM. A MAJOR PUBLICITY CAMPAIGN TO IMPRESS ON THE PUBLIC THE IR GREAT HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE IS ALSO BEING UNDERTAKEN.
ACCORDING TO THE CURATOR OF THE URBAN COUNCIL'S MUSEUM OF HISTORY, MR. BRIAN PEACOCK, VANDALISM HAS ALREADY TAKEN PLACE.
+ IF WE DON'T DO ANYTHING NOW, THESE CARVINGS WILL BE GONE IN A MATTER OF A YEAR OR TWO,+ HE WARNED.
THESE CARVINGS, MANY OF WHICH ARE OF GEOMETRIC DESIGN, DO NOT SEEM TO FIGURE SIGNÍFICANTLY IN PRESENT DAY LOCAL TRADITIONS. THEY ARE FOUND IN BIG WAVE BAY, SHEK PIK ON LANTAU, PO TOI ISLAND, TUNG LUNG ISLAND, CHEUNG CHAU AND KAU SAI CHAŬ.
APART FROM TRYING TO PRESERVE THESE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RELICS IN SITU, MR. PEACOCK SAID, WORK IS NOW PROCEEDING TO MAKE A PERMANENT RECORD OF THE CARVINGS BY PRODUCING REPLICAS EY A MOULDING PROCESS.
+WE FIRST PAINT ON THE SURFACE OF THESE CARVINGS LIQUID RUBBER LATEX, TOPPING IT WITH A SHEET OF COTTON GAUZE, HE SAID,
+FOLLOWING THIS, PLASTIC RESIN IS APPLIED ON THE TOP OF THE GAUZE TO GIVE THE MOULD GREATER RIGIDITY AND STRENGTH.
+WHEN THE VARIOUS LAYERS HAVE DRIED, WHICH NORMALLY TAKES ABOUT A DAY, THE MOULD IS REMOVED AND TAKEN TO THE MUSEUM OF ART LABORATORY IN THE CITY HALL WHERE IT IS USED TO PRODUCE AN EXACT REPLICA IN THE FORM OF A CAST,+ MR. PEACOCK SAID.
HE REVEALED THAT WHEN THE ENTIRE MOULDING AND CASTING WORK HAS BEEN COMPLETED IN ABOUT TWO MONTHS, AN EXHIBITION OF THE REPLICAS OF THE CARVINGS WILL BE HELD IN THE MUSEUM OF HISTORY.
+TO GIVE THEIR PRECISE AGE IS EXTREMELY DIFFICULT, HE SAID.
Issued by Government Information Services, Beaconsfield House, Hong Kong. Tel: 5-233191
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