Allakolla Estate Sumaithangi Stone

A sumaithangi stands beside the estate road at Allakolla. Structures like this let travellers carrying heavy loads on their heads set the weight down and rest without lowering it to the ground, using a horizontal stone laid across upright supports. At this example, the horizontal stone has fallen and now lies beside the uprights.

No record of this stone's construction date, builder, or history has surfaced. It does not appear on the official register of protected monuments for Kandy District, and beyond its position on an estate road in the district, nothing further about it is documented.