A RELOOK ON AN ABANDONED STRUCTURE AMIDST ARIKAMEDU

Arikamedu is an ancient Indo-Roman trading centre on the east coast near Pondicherry. It attracts now and then for its hidden treasure of Roman coins, beads, earthen ware etc. Once it was a flourishing trade of the Tamils with foreigners, especially the Romans. Only a portion of the Arikamedu area has been excavated so for and now that too was closed. The visitors, Tourist and Public both Indian and Foreigners would have noticed a building complex in a dilapidated condition. Unguided people and a few historians mistook it for the remains of the Arikamedu Trading centre. It is not so it is the Roman Catholic Seminary which came into existence in the middle of the 18th century. This paper examines the Abandoned Structure Amidst Arikamedu