Historical place profile

Kantarodai

Kantarodai is the name of a small, modern neighborhood in Chunnakam town in northern Sri Lanka. Archaeological excavations there have produced both local and imported pottery as well as mainland Indian and Roman coins.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:50037
Catalogue ID
pleiades:50037
Place type
settlement, settlement-modern
Coordinates
9.750898, 80.008959
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

Kantarodai is the name of a small, modern neighborhood in Chunnakam town in northern Sri Lanka. Archaeological excavations there have produced both local and imported pottery as well as mainland Indian and Roman coins.

Geographic evidence

The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.

Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 5 inset Kantarodai

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Research path

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