The town was surrounded by a wall and boasted a mud fort.

Ruins of this mud fort still exist here.

The mud walled fort fell, and with that the entire Ottoman force got up and ran.

There had been a mud fort located in the central village.

The remnants of the mud fort could be seen till 1940.

The mud fort was used by the local Mathilakam dynasty in the British era.

The villagers know very well the existence of a mud fort, which is now popularly called the Kota area.

A small but well built mud fort was present on the river side of the town.

Thereafter, he constructed a mud fort (now in the western part of the city), with a moat surrounding it and which had nine large gates.

The expanding of the mud fort had its origins in three factors: