OKKAMPITIYA CAVE

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

An unspecified cave or rock shelter without identified shape is said to consists of single 5 m wide chamber in gravitationally dislocated boulders (Brooks 1995 Mss no. 9). ETYMOLOGY: No locally known name has been identified for this unspecified cave or rock shelter called after the possibly somehow nearby village of Okkampitiya or, to be precise, Okkampitiya Ihalagama. IDENTITY: The so-called Okkampitiya Cave (Brooks 1995 Mss no. 9) is possibly identical with one of the named caves and rock shelters in the vicinity of Okkampitiya, including –>Alu Lena (Okkampitiya), –>Budugalge (Okkampitiya), and the –>Habessa -rock cave- (galge?). SITUATION: At an unspecified location without identified spatial relation to the village of Okkampitiya (note 1). CULTURAL HISTORY - archaeology: Excavation in 1908 (perhaps by Fritz Sarasin and Paul Sarasin?) proved this site to be barren (Brooks 1995 Mss no. 9 after DERANIYAGALA 1980: 155).An unspecified cave or rock shelter without identified shape is said to consists of single 5 m wide chamber in gravitationally dislocated boulders (Brooks 1995 Mss no. 9). ETYMOLOGY: No locally known name has been identified for this unspecified cave or rock shelter called after the possibly somehow nearby village of Okkampitiya or, to be precise, Okkampitiya Ihalagama. IDENTITY: The so-called Okkampitiya Cave (Brooks 1995 Mss no. 9) is possibly identical with one of the named caves and rock shelters in the vicinity of Okkampitiya, including –>Alu Lena (Okkampitiya), –>Budugalge (Okkampitiya), and the –>Habessa -rock cave- (galge?). SITUATION: At an unspecified location without identified spatial relation to the village of Okkampitiya (note 1). CULTURAL HISTORY - archaeology: Excavation in 1908 (perhaps by Fritz Sarasin and Paul Sarasin?) proved this site to be barren (Brooks 1995 Mss no. 9 after DERANIYAGALA 1980: 155).