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The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) has acceptable successful question the process for extortion and excavation of the 26-feet gangly Menhir (large upright stone) and different associated archaeological remains located successful Kumarikkalpalayam hamlet astatine Kaavunthampalayam Village successful Uthukuli Taluk arsenic a centrally protected tract of nationalist importance.
The Office of the Superintending Archaeology, ASI, Tiruchi, has forwarded proposals for extortion and excavation to the Director General, ASI, New Delhi, authoritative sources said.
During August, the ASI had sought from the Tiruppur territory medication gross records and associated survey for the intent of declaring the Menhir arsenic Centrally Protected Monument nether The Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act 1958.
The Revenue Department, it is learnt, is successful the process of finalising the attack way to the Menhir successful the village. Four paths were considered earlier narrowing down connected one, Revenue Department officials said.
Delineation of the way volition pave mode for protecting the Menhir, an ASI authoritative said.“Excavation astatine Kumarikkalpalayam volition propulsion important airy connected megalithic property and robust age,” according to the ASI officials.
The State Government’s Archaeological Department besides considers the ASI connection of utmost importance.
During June, the Department of Archeology had assured that the 26-feet Menhir, a granite operation believed to beryllium to Megalithic period, volition beryllium declared arsenic a protected monument nether The Tamil Nadu Ancient and Historical Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains Act, 1966 (Tamil NADU Act 25 OF 1966).
After a radical of archaeologists inspected the tract and confirmed its humanities value successful a study to the Department of Archaeology, T. Udayachandran, Principal Secretary /Commissioner, Department of Archeology, who has been successful the forefront of Keeladi excavations, had sought a connection from the Tiruppur territory medication for declaration of the past operation arsenic a monument.
In their study, the radical of archeologists had referred to the notation of the Menhir successful the 249th verse of Akananuru, a Sangam-era classical Tamil anthology, and their findings of urns and pottery pieces dating backmost to the past times.
Historians of Central University of Tamil Nadu (CUTN), had, during 2023, confirmed the value of the humanities operation and identified traces of robust ore, indicating manufacture of robust tools for cultivation purposes.
Residents of Kumarikkalpalayam are arsenic overmuch keen connected fructification of the ASI excavation and are prepared to portion with their properties with the lofty nonsubjective of safeguarding traces of past History, a husbandman owning onshore adjacent to the Menhir tract said.
