ummmmm..No thanks!!
But what if it is over 2000 years old???Prehistoric...
Oh…Well….
And what if these burials are massive stone blocks forming an umbrella shape and its only forty five min travel from here???
mmm….maybe we should check it out!!!
And clad in fancy salwaar kameezes,seated on the Guruvayur temple steps were WE (my frend and I) contemplating......
We were on our way back to Thrissur and Do we or do we not take the required diversion to this burial site. Once on the bus,we were still wondering where to go when the conductor came and stood in front of us with raised eye brows..So my friend said – Kecherry..Aha so we decided to go after all..Nice.
From Kecherry,which is almost halfway between Guruvayur and Thrssur, we too a Local bus to Pannithadam .From Pannithadam,we took an auto rickshaw to Cherumanangad and on enquiry we were directed to the Kudakkal Parambu ( literally meaning the site of the umbrella stones).
Kudakkal Parambu is a 3 acre Megalithic site which has around 53 megaliths that are protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.Megaliths are the architectural remnants of the Iron age (first millennium BC) and are massive stone blocks held without mortar making a definite form.
The megaliths here were constructed of many stones and put together they look like a huge /massive umbrella.This type of prehistoric burial is very rare and in India are only found in the South western coast (Lateritic belt).
From under some of these megaliths , urns have been unearthed.
Anyone who visits this place would definitely ponder how on earth the pre historic timers ,managed to arrange these mammoth stones to form such a beautiful shape…..
And now we talk about all the amazing things modern technology can do……
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