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by no means extensive, excavation was carried out there. In 1956
more than a dozen jars were discovered and in and around these
were smRller pots which contained skulls and other hnm,4n bones,
some of which were post-cremation remaine In the next year, nearly
fourteen urns were unearthed and these, too, contained human
bones, skulls, food and personal belongings These burials were
either fractional or secondary. Of the metal artefacts, four
are of bronze and one of iron. Some of these artefatta are ainrilar
to those discovered at the megalithic sites at Brahmagiri, in
the Kannada areas of South India Deraniyagala, who was in
charge of the 1956 excavations, has compared these with the
finds of the fourth quarter phase of the Bronze Age in the Deccan,
datable to about the third century B.C1
An examination of the material from Pomparippu
shows that it is not to the material from Brahmagiri and Chandravalli
that the Ceylonese artefacts bear the closest affinity, but to
those from the sites in the Tamil country, such as 4dichchanalltlr.
The Pomparippu site differs in one important respect from those
of Mysore and Ker4a, in that its interments belong to a class
called urn-burials and have no litbic appendage either in the
1. A.S.C.A.R. for 1956 , p.i
2. A.S.C.A.R. for 1957, pp. 11-17, 30-31.
3. Ibid., pp. 16-17.
k. Ibid., p. 17.