haldummulla A location of archaeological importance was identified in late December 2009 in Haldummulla of the Haldummulla Divisional Secretary’s division of the Badulla District in Uva province. This location is in the midst of a minor road leading to the Tamil school of Haldummulla. The place was first observed on 23 December 2009 and identified as a clay canoe burial site which is almost similar to the one that was excavated in Ranchamadama in theRatnapura District in the year 2007 (Somadeva et al. 2007; Somadeva 2009). The occasion when the first observations were made at the present site, parts of a single clay canoe were found exposed due to the erosion of the tar-layer of the existing road. The excavation in the year 2010 was initiated as a part of the Archaeology of the Uda Walave Basin project initiated by the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology since 2005 (vide. Somadeva 2010). Fieldwork was carried out for a period of six weeks since 14 August 2010. ...