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Location | : | Batticaloa District, Sri Lanka |
Description | : | "Within the Fort...[t]he peaceful cemetery occupies a prominent position on [the] green common, one side of which is washed by the lake. The burial ground contains about twenty dilapidated old Dutch and British tombs of heavy masonry from all of which, with one or two exceptions, the greater part of which is indecipherable. The stones are said to have been removed from time to time by the dhobies for their own use, so the local headman reports." Source: J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G.: List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon of Historical or Local Interest with an Obituary... Read More |
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