Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c11.s1.t1.8

c11.s1.t1.8

Banavāsi (Fig.6) is in the Malnād region receiving very heavy rainfall, 300-400 mm. The whole region has a thick mantle of ever green forest grown on the thick soil cover. Consequently the local rock of the hills is not readily accessible. The fortification wall is therefore necessarily and largely of mud and for the purpose of increasing the strength of mud-bricks partly.