January 26, 2023. While passing through Nagalapura village, I happened to notice a pair of vertical stone slabs in front of a house. The rough-cut slabs seemed to be fixed a very long time ago, probably a few or many hundreds of years ago. The notches at the top of the stones are aligned. Probably the notches held a stone beam in position. Its quite possible there was another pair of standing slabs with another beam forming a support for a roof of stone slabs. If such a structure did exist then it might have been a dolmen, a prehistoric grave marker.
Nagalapura is known for two Hoysala temples dedicated to Shiva and Vishnu: 1. Kedareshwara Devastana and 2. Chennakeshava Devastana. Both temples seems to be built around the same time, more or less of the same size, features are similar and both constructions were abandoned before completion. Despite the incomplete state of the temples, their highly detailed sculptures are worth seeing.
A similar pair of standing stones can be seen near Chennakeshava Devastana, Aralaguppe: standing slabs of Araluguppe.
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