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The  Sigiriya  Hinterland  

                 The archaeology of the Sigiriya complex is not limited to the palace, the gardens and the city, but extends to a large hinterland known in ancient times as the ‘Sihagiri Bim’, the Sigiri Territory, Recent archaeological explorations have shown that this area presents a complex archaeological landscape consisting of a large number of rural settlement sites, village tanks, protohistoric cemeteries, major iron-producing centres, and a variety of Buddhist monasteries.

                 The immediate greater Sigiriya area includes suburban settlements outside the city walls and along the Sigiriya Oya. A major irrigation network to the south of the Sigiriya rock is formed by the Sigiri Mahavava, a great man-made lake more than eight kilometres in length, and the twelve-kilometer long Vavala canal network, Immediately to the north and south of the city are the ancient fortress of Mapagala, with its ‘Cyclopean’ walls, dating from the first to the third centuries A.D., and the major monastery complexes of Pidurangala and Ramakale, Recent studies of this remarkable landscape have made it one of the most intensively surveyed archaeo-historical micro-regions in South Asia.

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