Guar Kepah (or Shell Mounds), the first archaeological site discovered in Malaysia - in Province Wellesley 153 years ago - is in a sad state, although sitting on Penang government-owned land.

Discovered by English navigator GW Earl in 1860, the land measuring 10,698.8 sq metres (2.643 acres) is not preserved properly as a swiftlet house hasbeen built on the site and jackfruit trees are in luxurious abundance there.