BUTKANDA CAVE 1

(Ratnapura District - LK)
6.383300,80.683300
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

The first of three unspecified caves or rock shelters (Brooks 1995 Mss no. 35, 36, 37). SITUATION: Somewhere in the hillside near the village of Butkanda / Buthkanda (note 1), possibly in the Kolonne (Kolonna) korale. CULTURAL HISTORY - archaeology: Excavation yielded stone tools made from chert and quartz (DERANIYAGALA 1980: 177).The first of three unspecified caves or rock shelters (Brooks 1995 Mss no. 35, 36, 37). SITUATION: Somewhere in the hillside near the village of Butkanda / Buthkanda (note 1), possibly in the Kolonne (Kolonna) korale. CULTURAL HISTORY - archaeology: Excavation yielded stone tools made from chert and quartz (DERANIYAGALA 1980: 177).

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History

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