Erode: Three burial urns were unearthed at Mosagoundanur near Andhiyur in the district on Wednesday.
The urns were unearthed while panchayat workers were digging the ground to lay sewage canal.
“We spotted three mud pots in the ground,” M Palanisamy, one of the workers, said.
He said they also spotted a few bones in the pots while breaking them.
The workers alerted the panchayat officials, who in turn informed the revenue department and the archeological department. Curator of the Erode district government museum B Jency inspected the mud pots and confirmed that they were burial urns.
“We have collected a few bones from the urns,” she said, adding that the period of the people buried in the urns were not ascertained yet.
The curator sent the urn and bone samples to the government lab in Chennai to ascertain the period.