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<< Text Pages >> Pahiyangala, Sri Lanka - Cave or Rock Shelter in Sri Lanka

Submitted by KaiHofmann on Saturday, 11 August 2012  Page Views: 3607

Natural PlacesSite Name: Pahiyangala, Sri Lanka Alternative Name: Fahien cave, Fa-Hiengala
Country: Sri Lanka
NOTE: This site is 23.087 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Bulathsinhala  Nearest Village: Yatagampitiya
Latitude: 6.648514N  Longitude: 80.216789E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
no data Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
no data Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
4
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Cave in Sri Lanka

Cave in which late Pleistocene human skeletal remains were discovered in the 1960s and 1980s.
The cave was probably inhabited from about 33.000 to 4.750 BCE.
Later the cave was reused as a bhuddistic pilgrimage site.


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