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Historic bridge is falling down
By Athula Bandara
An engineering feat by our ancestors is falling bit by bit due to an apparent lack of interest by the Archaeology Department.

The 250-metre-long historic stone bridge over the Malwatu Oya was of strategic significance during the Anuradhapura era as access to the Kankasanthurai port was only through this bridge.

But today restoration work on this engineering marvel, which began in 1998 as part of the golden jubilee celebrations of our independence, has come to a standstill. Even the access road to the bridge has been neglected and becomes inaccessible on rainy days.

Inspite of its neglected state local and foreign tourists still visit the spot to marvel at this stone monument. If restoration work does not begin soon this bridge will soon be washed away by the Malwatu Oya that flows below and a great engineering feat would be lost to future generations.
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