A century-old granite idol was found near a check dam by a group of residents of Pullar village near Vaniyambadi town in Tirupattur on the Tamil Nadu - Andhra Pradesh border.
Revenue officials said that the residents immediately alerted the local police and revenue officials, who recovered the idol, which is around 1.5 feet in height with the name of the deity and the village on its base.
Archaeologists said that the idol, which dates back to the later part of 19th century, resembles a goddess mother deity worshipped in ancient villages since the Pallavas in the 7th-8th centuries.
