Iron Age funeral site found nearby Tiruvannamalai

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Iron Age funeral site found circuitously Tiruvannamalai

T.S. Subramanian

It is widespread over 3 km and can be antiquated to 1,000 BCE-300 CE

These megalithic funeral sites (cairn circles), detected circuitously Veeranam in Tiruvannamalai district, can be antiquated to 1,000 BCE-300 CE. The slab slabs of a dolmenoid cists, damaged by villagers, are strewn around.

CHENNAI: An Iron Age megalithic funeral site, dotted with cairn-circles, has been detected circuitously Veeranam village, during a feet of a sequence of hills, in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruvannamalai district.

This sprawling site, widespread over about 3 km in Tandaramapattu taluk, can be antiquated to 1,000 BCE-300 CE. What is engaging about a find is that many of a cairn-circles have dolmenoid cists on a aspect within a circles. Cairn-circles are severe stones organised in a circle, and dolmenoid cists are box-like structures done of slab slabs. The cairn-circles prove funeral chambers below, with urns containing skeleton and pottery with paddy, beads, knives, swords and other artefacts.

Poems in a Tamil Sangam novel (300 BCE to 300 CE) applaud these megalithic burials, that can clear a secrets of a amicable life of that age. But residents of circuitously villages have already broken a immeasurable series of these cairn-circles circuitously Veeranam and carted divided a stones and granite-slabs for building cowsheds and devalue walls, and for laying floors. A chase is operative nearby, in a hills.

The find was done by a group led by K.T. Gandhirajan, who specialises in art history. The group enclosed Professor G. Chandrasekaran, former principal of a Government College of Fine Arts, Chennai; K. Natarajan, sculptor; and A. Amirthalingam, painter.

Terming it a vast, unexplored site, Mr. Gandhirajan said: “It is an critical site in northern Tamil Nadu, that is being broken fast. It has not been excavated so far, and it might produce a lot of Palaeolithic tools.” There are dual forms of burials here: cairn-circles with dolmenoid cists on a aspect and plain cairn-circles.

“These funeral sites have dark secrets of a amicable life of a Sangam age. The poets of a Sangam age speak about such funeral sites, that are equally or some-more critical than a Tamil-Brahmi sites,” Mr. Gandhirajan said. But a cairn-circles circuitously Veeranam are being broken by villagers vital a few km away. A chase is mining slab in a hills tighten to a site and “if a chase extends a operation, a site will be destroyed.”

K. Rajan, Professor of History, Department of History, Pondicherry University, pronounced there were several references in a poems of a Sangam novel to a megalithic burials. One of a poems, for instance, spoke about ‘paral uyar padhukkai,’ that is, towering mill circles (‘paral’ means stones, ‘uyar’ referring to towering and ‘padhukkai’ definition circles).

Dr. Rajan, who has detected scores of megalithic funeral sites including cairn-circles, dolmens and menhirs, pronounced a Veeranam and other sites in Tiruvannamalai district could be antiquated to 1,000 BCE — that is, 3,000 years before a present.

“Destruction of these megalithic funeral sites is going on during a really quick rate,” he said. Vandalism had broken a well built dolmens during Mallanchandiram in Krishnagiri district. Industrialisation has erased a megalithic burials during Mankulam circuitously Madurai. Urbanisation and construction of a dam during Orathupalayam have broken a Iron Age funeral sites circuitously Kodumanal, circuitously Erode.

Hundreds of megalithic funeral sites that have been broken embody those on a Vandalur-Kelambakkam Road circuitously Chennai, Venpakkam circuitously Singaperumal Kovil, also circuitously Chennai, in and around Pudukottai, during Kallampalayam in a Nilgiris, Vellaripatti, circuitously Madurai on a Madurai-Tiruchi Road, during Porunthal encampment and Ravimangalam, both circuitously Palani.

The appearance of outrageous earth-moving machines, used for laying highways and digging large pits, hastened a drop of a Iron Age funeral sites, Mr. Gandhirajan said.

He wanted a Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department or a Archaeological Survey of India to ready a list of a flourishing sites, blockade them off and announce them stable monuments underneath a Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act.

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