Princess Town's 17th-century fort gets a careful new life
A team of conservators is rebuilding the seaward wall using the same lime mortar recipe the original Brandenburgers used.
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· Updated Jun 01
On a quiet bluff overlooking the Atlantic, the small Brandenburg fort at Princess Town is getting the most careful restoration of its 340-year history.
The team has spent six weeks documenting every stone before lifting any of it. The new lime mortar is mixed on-site from shell-lime collected along the coast, exactly as the original builders did.
Chief conservator Naa Densu Owusu says the goal is not to make the fort look new: "We want to stabilise what is here so the next generation can still walk these walls. Repair, not replace."
The site will reopen to the public in October.
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