ANCIENT HILL

ANCIENT HILL

Budagavi (V), Uravakonda (M), Ananthapuramu (D)

Location: Budagavi (Lat. 14°58‘04.2”N; Long. 77°14‘09.7”E) village is   5 Kms from Uravakonda and 60 Kms from Ananthapuramu District headquarters town on Ananthapuramu-Bellary road.

Brief History of the Ancient Hill:

From the Ancient Hill slopes of Budagavi hillock or Pedda konda, Neolithic implements, microliths, grey ware and red ware pottery are collected indicating this place to be a Neolithic habitation. There are six rock shelters and gliding rock boulders from the southern side of the village. In one of the shelters are noticed rock paintings depicting animals, birds and fine imprints of the left hand in red ochre. Figures of three deers are painted on the extreme right, a bull and cow in the center, with a calf below. A buffalo a little below the calf, five left hand prints on the left side and a bird, probably an eagle or a crow, flying from north to south are finely painted. A Human figure in line drawing is found on the extreme left, just in the middle of the hand prints. Another figure of horned bull is seen on the boulder below the rock shelter.

Another rock shelter bearing figures of humped horned bulls, antelopes, palm tree, line drawing of a man holding a spear in his right hand with an antelope by his side, a hand print, all in red ochre, have been noticed. Two line drawings of human figures have also been noticed in another rock shelter painted in white pigment. Excavation at Budagavi revealed that Neolithic and Megalithic Cultures flourished at the site.