Hammonhill Fort belonging of Kytes West Island in the Grama Niladhari Division of Kytes town bearing No. J-49 in the Divisional Secretariat Division of Kytes Northern Island, Jaffna District, Northern Province.

Fort Hammenheil is located on a small island in the Indian Ocean between the islands of Kytes and Karainagar (Karathivu). It is reached from Jaffna city via AB 21 and AB17 through Karainagar. Heike Yvonne WobGant Heitor Yohann Wolf Garnet, who lived for some time in Sri Lanka, had to say the following about Fort Hammenheil:

“The fort named Hammenheil, which lay not far from Jaffna Patnam is, in reality, a guard post located at the edge of the canal between Velani (Orever) and the Jaffna Peninsula on the island of Hammenheil. The ships carrying elephants cosigned to Bengal and Coramendal are loaded from the island Amsterdam for which a pier exists.”

The main section of Fort Hammenheil, which is constructed to fill the four-acre extent of the island completely, is 12.18mts in height.

The Portuguese, whose power swayed for a period of one hundred and thirty, had to capitulate to the Dutch, who clinched the power over Fort Hammenheil due to their invasion in 1658.

THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE OF THE JAFFNA PENINSULA

Dr. Malini Dias M. A. (Kelaniya) Ph.d. (London)

Sunil Bandara Koralage B.A.(Hons), Msc. (Kelaniya)

M. V. G. Kalpa Asanga B.A., Post Graduate Dip. Archaeology (Kelaniya)

Department of Archaeology 2016 P:217

The site was designated as an Archaeological Protected Monument by Government Gazette notification. No: 1486 published on 23 February 2007.

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