YAKUNNEHELA GALGE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

No dimensions are known of a large (Brooks, S J 1995 Mss, no. 10) rock shelter in gravitationally dislocated gneiss boulders. ETYMOLOGY: SARASIN (1931: 47; 1939: 163) translates -Yakunnehela- or -Yakunne Hela- as Demon's Mountain and Brooks, S J (1995 Mss, no. 10) renders Yakunnehela Galga a Yakunne-Hela Cave (?) SITUATION: At an unspecified location somewhere in the vicinity of –>Gangodedeniya Galge on Yakunnehela / Yakunne Hela near one of the villages called Nilgala. CAVE DESCRIPTION: Relatively Large without comparison for scale (Brooks, S J 1995 Mss, no. 10). CULTURAL HISTORY - archaeology: None. SARASIN (1931: 47; 1939: 163) reports to have excavated 0.3 m of archaeologically barren cave sediment. CAVE LIFE: So-called sleeping nests (SARASIN 1931: 47; 1939: 163) indicate the periodical presence of bears, probably sloth bears (Melursus ursinus inoratus).