Burial site & Kudakkalluparamb at Cheramanagad

Burial site & Kudakkalluparamb at Cheramanagad

• 69 megalithic monuments in a small area.

HOOD STONES  at cheramanangad

• 33 multiple hood stone type burials.
• Second largest concentration of hood stones.
• No of stones in hood stones ranges from 5 to 9.
• Intermediate between single hood stone and umbrella stone.
• Circle sectorally dressed clinostats of laterite.
• Clinostats tends to converge towards the top.
• They do not join.
• They have a circular gap in the middle.

ON EXCAVATION OF HOOD STONE

ü Burial of an urn within a pit 1.05m depth

ü Relics- disintegrated bones, a vase in red ware, white painted bow.

ü The urn closed granite slab.

ü The pit was filled with same soil retrieved while digging wares,3 bowls and unidentified iron object were seen.

ü Multiple hood stone did not yield any interment.