Volume 1, Issue 7

Recent Archaeological Explorations in Shervarayan Hills, Tamil Nadu

Author

Dr. Priyakrishnan, Guest Lecturer& Archaeologist, Govt Fine arts college, chennai

Abstract

Abstract: The role of tourism and the establishment of tea and coffee estates are the major causes that confront many of the archaeological remains in Yercaud. Some of the most extensive dolmen sites to be identified by Robert Bruce Foote and his successors in the picturesque hill had been almost razed to ground for the development of tourist resorts cropped up in every nook and corner. The dolmen site of Kilmondambadi (Foote 1916), cist burials of Karadiyur, Moganad (Foote 1916), Talaisolai and Sengadu irrespective of its antiquity had fallen as lame victims to cater the needs of coffee estates. The presence of graves is seen at these places only as a trash pits or as boundary stones planted in the estates. The Neolithic implements identified at the site of Muluvi are also fast disappearing due to the expansion of these

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