Hong Kong Tung Chung Battery,Tang Dynasty lime kiln ruins
Hong Kong Tung Chung Battery position before a fort, located near the pier in Tung Chung, Lantau Island, New Territories, Hong Kong has been included in the existing monuments. Tung Chung Fort Tung Chung Battery and take care of each other, and Tuen Mun Gean relative, guardian of the north shore of Lantau Island, the Pearl River to defend the port. Small fort was built towards the Jiaqing 22 years (1817), granite brick walls, there are two forts, and there are seven soldiers and a powder room office, but now only a parapet.
In 1980, authorities found a bush covered by waste site near Tung Chung pier base, when the trees cleared, two plugging into a wall and a colt for placing artillery platforms became apparent. Tung Chung Fort Hill lions mouth its position recorded in the chronicles with very close, it is considered to be among one of the two forts. Fort built with granite, still maintaining the integrity of the original abandoned thereafter because the nearby "Ma Wan Chung Bridge" collapse, monks local materials, access to demolish most of the fort granite repair Ma Wan Chung Bridge, named "Maitreya bridge . "
Tang Dynasty lime kiln ruins
There is a gray Tang Dynasty kiln site near Tung Chung Battery, formerly located at Chek Lap Kok Fu Tei Bay shore, was discovered in the 1960s. To avoid the impact of the development of the new airport project, in 1991, assisted by the injection port Geu Cameroon Corps of Engineers (Gurkha Engineers) entire relocation from Chek Lap Kok to Tung Chung, former lime kiln ruins seat too large, Tung Chung Pier overloaded, need first shipped to the Mui Wo, then the car shipped back to Tung Chung placement.
Scenic Area Address: near Tung Chung, Lantau Island, Hong Kong pier
Bus routes: Take Citybus e11 on Lantau Island, e21a, e21x, e21, e22a in Tung Chung Crescent Station and then walk to there