Excavation at Chandravalli (Mysore State)

The valley of Chandravalli is situated immediately to the west of the fortified hill of Chitradurga in the north of the Mysore State. [...] R. Narsimhacharya who was the head of the Archaeological Department of the Government of Mysore visited the spot sank eight small pits in a part of the area and published a few of the antiquities that he was able to collect in the annual report of the Mysore (1) Page LXXXII 57 58 plate 8 Numbers 23 24.3 Government Arch ological Department for the year 1909. [...] To the north of golden rock between it and the road is a grove in the midst of which stands a temple of Sakti built in the days of the Nlyaks. [...] The engineers notiing the large rainfall of the two valleys that was going to waste cut a drain of about half a mila in length to lead the water from the Hulégondi gorge to the Sihinir Honda or the fresh water tank near the Basavana-bagilu forgate ; and the flood did the rest. [...] (6) The neoliths collected in the water courses and in the caves of Neralagondi and Baralagondi pointed to the existence of man during the neolithic times in the Chandravalli valley.