XXXI. ON THE ANCIENT STRUCTURES ON 
KEDAH PEAK 
By Ivor H. N. Evans, M.A. 
It has been known for a good number of years that 
ancient remains exist on Kedah Peak. ‘They were first dis- 
covered by Mr. F. W. Irby, Perak Trigonometrical Survey, 
in 1894, through his coolies accidentally setting fire to the 
peaty deposit which then covered the whole of the mountain 
top. On the fire burning out, a platform about sixteen feet 
square was disclosed, this being edged with two courses of 
dressed granite blocks. A hole, with a diameter of about 
two-and-a-half feet and a depth of two feet, was found in 
centre of the platform. The space surrounding this “ well’’ 
and within the granite-edged square, was, if I understand 
Messrs. Irby’s and Lefroy’s reports! correctly, filled with 
bricks of roughly dressed laterite. 
In addition to the above-mentioned platform (marked A 
in Mr. Irby’s plan) he found traces of nine small “ hearths ”’ 
on the southern and precipitous edge of the summit, and 
those of another platform or “‘ large hearth,’’ with a hole (C) 
not far from it, at the south-western end of the mountain top. 
Furthermore, he and Mr. Lefroy were able to trace the remains 
of a rubble wall running from the south-western end of the 
summit in a north-easterly direction for 160 or 170 feet, finally 
disappearing under the unburnt remainder of the peat. 
Roughly N.W. of the platform (A), ie another hole was 
encountered which is marked B on their plan. 
On June 16th, 1921, Se ee Mr. W. M. Gordon 
Tem nolary Assistant, F.M.S. Museums, I started excavation 
work on the mountain 
A dicluainaty inspection of the summit unfortunately 
remains discovered by Mr. Irby, using the stones and bricks 
so obtained in making foundations for the iron legs of the 
beacon. This act of vandalism was quite unnecessar 
there is plenty of the local quartz-sandstone to be obtained 
with a little trouble. 
Nearly the whole of the mountain top appearing to be 
almost bare rock, I decided to deal with the western end, the 
only part which looked at all promising, for it was here only 
that the peaty deposit remained intact, since it had not been 
burnt at the time of Mr, Irby’s visit. 
1 Journal of the F.M.S, Museums, Vol. 1, pp. 76-81. 
