OKKAMPITIYA CAVE
6.750000,81.283300
Description
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).
Histoire
EXPLORATION HISTORY: 1908: Archaeological excavation (by Fritz and Paul Sarasin?) proved the site to be barren.
Cavités proche
Distance (km) | Nom | Longueur (m) | Profondeur (m) |
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3.7 | MEMINNAHELA GALGE 1 | ||
3.7 | MEMINNAHELA GALGE 2 | ||
5.8 | YUDAGANAWA (Cave at) | ||
6.7 | Habessa Rock Cave | ||
7.8 | BUDUGALGE, Okkampitiya | ||
9.4 | KATUGAHAGALGE | ||
11.2 | ALU LENA, Okkampitiya | ||
12.5 | KOMARIKAGALAROCK CAVE | ||
18.9 | BAKINIGAHA ULPOTA KANDA (Cave on the) |