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Hello, I thought you should see this article with photos that we've just received from India, perhaps you could add it to your news, Andy

Ashvin Rajagopalan writes: On a hot Sunday afternoon in May, a few of us archaeology enthusiasts from Chennai (Tamilnadu, India) decided to follow up on a recent newspaper article and drove down to the small town of Thiruporur. We read that there was a Megalithic burial site dating from 1000 – 300 BCE close to this town. The report said that this site was being encroached upon by local property developers, all this, in spite of there being a notice board and strict warnings saying that the land was protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.

As we made our way to what was more like a megalithic war-zone than a burial site, we noticed that several stone circles had been removed and dumped along the properties to make fences or used as landfill. We asked our local guide who was now eagerly walking with us, very amused, if these were approved plots. He straight away, in a very cynical manner, told us that this is all illegal and that these people were speculating on future prices. He also went on to tell us that 3 cents of land is priced at about Rs.50,000/-. None of these fenced properties had a Patta, so the owners act very fast and remove the stone circles in their property and plant coconut trees or banana plantations. As we looked further ahead we saw industrial strength machines digging wells in several properties. All these properties, not long ago, had stone circles in them.

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