A short distance away, he came to a black hole in the slope with a sand mound below it.
Down in one of the little valleys between the sand mounds was a cluster of-things.
Under a sand mound near Dubbs a stone pavement, coffin, and large boulder were discovered in 1832.
The site includes a shell midden approximately 30 fee wide and 175 feet in diameter, with a sand mound immediately to the west.
In order to control the flooding of rivers, sand mounds were raised so that water could be diverted for irrigation.
The alluvium deposited by the river has been worked over by the wind, which gave rise to a number of small dunes and sand mounds.
Because of natural sea attrition, few of the original sand mounds have survived.
However, the Ambalapuzha link remained a mystery till the excavation of sand mounds in the late 1970s.
He pointed out that in addition to the potential aesthetic objections to sand mounds, there are some economic disincentives to them as well.
The next phase of the mission was to "overwatch" the highway by driving onto a series of hard-packed sand mounds.