SCARBOROUGH ESTATE (Cave in)

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified cave (PARKER 1909 after John Pole 1909.03.05) or a rock shelter in which ancient stone tools were found: Flint implements, cores, and one arrowhead. SITUATION: Somewhere within the Scarborough Estate (N06°47': E080°36'), a plantation about 6 or 7 km in a direct line approximately SSE from Maskeliya (N06°50'09”: E080°34'13” WGS84). CULTURAL HISTORY - archaeology: PARKER (1909: 64 note 1, 65 figures 20-34): I am indebted to Dr. Seligmann for a cutting from the Ceylon Observer (weekly edition) for March 5, 1909, in which Mr. Pole gave an account of the discovery of numerous flint implements and cores in a cave on Scarborough Estate, in Maskeliya. Among them was one 'beautiful example3 of an arrow-head, but of what type is not stated. Through the kindness of Mr. Pole and Mr. Gardner I am able to supply illustrations (Figs. 20-34) of & typical series of these articles which will indicate their shapes and character better than attempts at description. Mr. Pole was god enough to send me tracings of many of his finds.