Digging of megalithic burials at Kodumanal begins
The Hindu
Earlier excavations have revealed that the site served as a trade-cum-industrial centre dating it to over 2,500 years
Two months after a team from the State Department of Archaeology began excavation on the Noyyal river bed at Kodumanal village in Chennimalai Union where iron smelting units were unearthed recently in large numbers, the team began here on Wednesday. A team led by J. Ranjith, Archaeology Officer and Project Director for the Kodumanal excavation, K. Suresh, Archeological Officer, and had so far dug 28 quadrants and unearthed iron smelting units and found furnaces and other processing materials. Also read:More Related News