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Tile-roofed image house with guardstones. Anuradhapura district (unidentified).
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Ancient Ruins

Tile-roofed image house with guardstones

Anuradhapura district (unidentified)
c. 1870–1871

Certainty
Uncertain
The kind of scene is clear, but the place or people are not established.
On the print
Lawton
Maker
Lawton
Date basis
Marked Lawton on the print; Joseph Lawton photographed the ancient cities for the Archaeological Committee in 1870-71 and died in 1872. The print itself may be later
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Visual identification
Reference
TCP-R3

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