SINHARAJA FOREST CAVE, Kudawe
6.400000,80.508900
Description
An about 3 m wide and 2.4 m high cave entrance leads to an estimated 5 m long single chamber in what Brooks (1995 Mss, item 18) assumed to be gneiss. SITUATION: Somewhere in the vicinity of a village of Kudawe or Kudave and Kuduwe (note 1), which is said to lie in the Sinharaja Forest (N06°24'00”: E080°30'32” WGS84) and in the wet lowland zone (DERANIYAGALA 1980: 172) . ARCHAEOLOGY: Excavations in 1939 and 1968 were fruitless (DERANIYAGALA 1980: 172).An about 3 m wide and 2.4 m high cave entrance leads to an estimated 5 m long single chamber in what Brooks (1995 Mss, item 18) assumed to be gneiss. SITUATION: Somewhere in the vicinity of a village of Kudawe or Kudave and Kuduwe (note 1), which is said to lie in the Sinharaja Forest (N06°24'00”: E080°30'32” WGS84) and in the wet lowland zone (DERANIYAGALA 1980: 172) . ARCHAEOLOGY: Excavations in 1939 and 1968 were fruitless (DERANIYAGALA 1980: 172).
History
EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1939: A first attempt of archaeological investigation was fruitless (DERANIYAGALA, S U 1980: 172). 1968: A second attempt of archaeological investigation was also fruitless (DERANIYAGALA, S U 1980: 172).
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|---|---|---|---|
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| 13.7 | ITTEKANDA CAVE 2 | ||
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