MENELA GALGE, Gavatgiriya

Ratnapura (Ratnapura District - LK)
6.642200,80.266700
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An about 5 m wide and 2.4 m high cave entrance with unspecified shape faces an unspecified direction and leads to an estimated 7 to 8 m long cave in gneiss which yielded, when archaeologically excavated in 1953 to a depth of 2.1 m, stone tools and faunal remains (Brooks 1995 Mss, no. 30 after DERANIYAGALA, S U 1980: 177). SITUATION: At an unidentified location and in an unspecified spatial relation near Gavatgiriya (Brooks 1995 Mss, no. 30), which appears to be the village known as Gawaragiriya (N06°38'32”: E080°16').

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History

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

Caves nearby

Distance (km)NameLength (m)Depth (m)
0.0MANELA GALGE
5.7FA HIEN LENA
10.0AA CAVE (Eckrich 1984)
12.5Wavul Lena
13.2KABARA GALGE
15.0AA CAVE (Siffre 1975: 35)
15.3BUDU GALLENA
17.8NERAVANA GAL LENA
19.1YAKGIRI LENA