View source for Jubilee Post, Nugegoda

{{Use DMY dates|date=January 2022}}
{{EngvarB|date=January 2022}}
'''Jubilee Post''' ({{langx|si|ජුබිලි කණුව}}) [[Nugegoda]] is a commemorative marker, at the intersection of Stanley Thilakarathne Mawatha ([[List of B-Grade highways in Sri Lanka#B120|B120]]) and Old Kottawa Road, formerly King George Avenue ([[List of B-Grade highways in Sri Lanka#B291|B291]]), recognising the [[Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria]] in 1887.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://archives.dailynews.lk/2012/02/02/fea30.asp|title=Historical remnants of Kotte Kingdom|newspaper=[[The Daily News (Sri Lanka)|The Daily News]]|first=Premil |last=Ratnayake |author-link=Premil Ratnayake |date=2 February 2012|access-date=24 September 2018}}</ref> The post was initially erected on the road verge but was subsequently relocated to the middle of the intersection.<ref>{{cite book|title=Pauranika Sthana Saha Smaraka: Kolamba Distrikkaya|author=Manathunga, S. B.|publisher=Department of Archaeology|date=2016|page=90|isbn=955-9159-39-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Puravidya Sthana Namavaliya: Kolamba Distrikkaya|editor1=Rajapakshe, S.|editor2=Bandara, T. M. C.|editor3=Vanninayake, R. M. B. T. A. B.|publisher=Department of Archaeology |page=11|date=2018|isbn=978-955-7457-19-2}}</ref> It was moved again in 2020 when the intersection was upgraded.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.asiantruth.com/jubilee-post-at-mirihana-is-missing-gazetted-in-2005-as-an-archeological-monument/|title='Jubilee post' at Mirihana is missing|newspaper=Asian Truth|date=19 November 2020|access-date=3 January 2022}}</ref>
The post is approximately {{convert|1.2|m|abbr=on}} high and is fixed to a rectangular base, {{convert|52|cm|abbr=on}} by {{convert|34|cm|abbr=on}} and {{convert|26|cm|abbr=on}} tall. The inscriptions on the post are in [[English language|English]] and [[Sinhala language|Sinhalese]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Epigraphical Notes (Nos 22-23)|author=Gamage, P. D.|date=2020|publisher= Department of Archaeology|page=68-71|isbn=978-955-7457-30-7}}</ref>
It is maintained by the [[Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte Municipal Council]], who have painted the post white.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.island.lk/2003/12/07/featur06.html|title=The birds are gone, and the warm fields return no more|newspaper=[[The Island (Sri Lanka)|The Island]]|first=Tissa|last=Abeysekara}}</ref> On 8 July 2005 it was gazetted as an [[List of Archaeological Protected Monuments in Colombo District|archaeological protected monument]] by the government.<ref name=Gaz1401>{{cite journal|title=Gazette|date=8 July 2005|journal=[[The Gazette of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka]]|volume=1401}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{coord|6|52|34.34|N|79|54|2.24|E|region:LK|display=title}}
[[Category:Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte]]
[[Category:1887 in Ceylon]]
[[Category:Archaeological protected monuments in Colombo District]]
[[Category:Buildings and structures in Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte]]