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NEW STONE AGE TOOLS, TAMIL BRAHMI LETTER, GRAFFTI MARKS, HOPSCOTCHES, SLINGSTONES, · GLASS BEADS DISCOVERED.


Virarajendran Archaeological  and Historical Research Centre





·         NEW  STONE  AGE TOOLS, TAMIL  BRAHMI  LETTER, GRAFFTI  MARKS, HOPSCOTCHES, SLINGSTONES,
·         GLASS BEADS  DISCOVERED.
             The research team  from  virarajendran Archaeologicl  and  Historical Research  Centre  from  Tiruppur  has  collected  archeological  evidences  of  an Ancient  Settlement  at  Sengathurai  village
In Sulur  Taluk  of  Coimbatore  district. The  team  consisted  of  their  Field Work  Co-ordinator
S.Sathasivam,  S.Velusamy, V.Nagarajganeshkumar,  K.Ponnusamy  and  Er.S.Ravikumar  visited  the
Banks of  NOYYAL  RIVER  at  Sengathurai  which is 4 k.m.  North  of  Sulur  Air  Force  Station  and  collected  the  New  Stone  Age  tools, broken  pieces  of  potteries  with  Tamil  Brahmi  Letter, Graffti marks,  Bangles  made  of  Conch,  Grinding  stones  and  some  precious  stones  in  their  on  the  surface  research.  Sathasivam  further  said,  The  last  part  of  the  stone age  is  traditionally  known
As  NEOLITHIC or  NEW STONE AGE.  The  scholars  had  identified  this  age  as  the  period  which
Witnessed  the  beginning  of  cultivation  and  culmation  of  usage  of  polished  lithic  implements.
Later  on  usage  of  metals  in  making  tools  emerged  in  the  copper age, Bronze age,  and  Iron age.
  The  survey  of  Neolithic  Culture  indicates  that  from  7000 BCE to  5000BCE it was limited to rearing
Sheep and goats, but by 3000BCE it included Cattle, Cultivation of Domesticated Plants, permanently or
Semi-permanently  inhabited settlements and the use of pottery and ground-stone tools rather than flaked ones. They employed  POLISHED STONE TOOLS for cutting as well as dressing the wood,used fully
Ground stone implements for hunting and tilling the soil.Here in sengathurai we traced two New Stone
Age tools which is of polished one which is around 3000 years old. So,sengathurai was in-habited for
  3000 years from now.  The stone Len gth        Width          Tkickness   11cm, 5cm, 2cm  and  8cm, 5c.m and  2.5cm t.k.  GRAFFITI ON POTTERY.  Study of graffiti was initated by BRANFIL, YAZDHANI, B.K.THAPAR  , B.B.LAL, S.GURUMURTHY and Dr.K.RAJAN. They were of the opinion that the graffiti represents 1. The symbols of potters  2. Symbols of the pot owner and 3. Totemic symbols.  The study of the graffiti marks on the potsherds throw valuable light on the living condition of the people in that area.Here we find pottery with TAMIL BRAHMI letter Ma and various graffiti marks as shown in the picture. This might be around  2600 years old. The pottery collected from our  findings consists of  1.Black & Red ware 2.Russet coated painted ware  3.Red ware. HOPSCOTCHES: Hopscothes are flat potshards grounded in all the sides to make it circular the children used them to play games.Hopping on one foot from one end and pushing the round objects over scotches (lines) to the other end is the objective of the game. Here we collected 4 hopscotches relating to 3rd century B.C.  SLINGSTONE:- Spheroid balls are generally small in size and finely smoothened all over. These could have been used as playing balls or for attacking small animals like birds etc. They were probably used for grinding powder etc. INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX:-  Many residues of iron ore were found on the field. Broken pieces of bangles made of conch, Glass Beads of various colours were collected from the site. The occurance of glass beads and their different shapes manufacturing technique and raw materials for their manufacture shows the possibility of existence of industries in manufacturing Iron and Steel, Textiles, Bangles and Beads from Semi-Precious stones in sengathurai  from this we come to the conclusion that sengathurai was once an ancient trade route settlement village and the romans entered Kongunadu belt after reaching the west coast through the palghat pass and trade routes existed through this region to the eastern side of the state as it was strong in trading of materials. Kongunadu fell on the trade route of Greeks and Romans who would travel through this region to Madurai, Uraiyur and other places in the south. Sathasivam further said in Tamil the word THURAI refers to market where people assemble to buy and sell their commodities.so,there will be always huge sound. In TAMIL CLASSICAL LITERATURE  PURANANOORU the song no.204 refers that cattle will often go to the river bed for drinking water. By the time the cattle shatters the water and the water looks reddish. So the word sengathurai may be formed from these views. So from this we come to the conculsion that this village is habited for more than3000 years from now and the findings arenothing but only THE REMAINDERS (RESIDUE) OF NOYYAL VALLEY CIVILIZATION.                              

                                










                
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