Note on some old graves in the Coimbatore 
District. 
(By H. 0. D. HARDING.) 
In tlie fields in the villages of Makinaickempatti and Nattu- 
kalpolliem about 2 and 4 miles respectively to the south- 
east of Pollachi, are a large number of those stone dolmens 
locally known as Pandava Kuris. The village of Nattu- 
kalpolliem is particularly well favoured and its name denotes 
that it is the village of the planted stones. In one field to 
the south of this village are about 12 of these Kuris. They 
differ in outward appearance, some being merely mounds 
with a buried circle of upright stones surrounding them^ 
others being what I believe are dolmens proper — that is 
one large flat stone lying as a roof above a chamber com- 
posed of large stone slabs. On various sides of each of these 
remains are planted large upright stones, sometimes as 
much as 12 or 14 feet high. I have recently excavated 
6 of these graves, and as I think some description of them 
may not be uninteresting, submit this report. 
The first opened will be best understood by a reference 
to the accompanying rough plans. 
It is a stone chamber sunk in the ground as they all are. 
It was roofed by a slab of stone which rested on five up- 
right stones which formed the two sides and two ends and 
central partition stone. It is divided into two chambers by 
9i stone slab in the centre. Each of these chambers is again 
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