K.P.Shajan Admits Transfer of Antiquities From Pattanam to Union Christian College Museum

 Evidence come from K.P.Shajan's Ph.D thesis submitted to Cochin University in 1998

Much before Pattanam was  excavated by P.K.Gopi, former registrar of the Centre for Heritage Studies at Thrippunithurain Ernakulam the site was subjected to trenching  and informal digging by K.P.Shajan. Shajan was a Ph.D student at the school of Marine Sciences under the Cochin University of Science and Technology. He conducted trenching at Pattanam and the antiquities from the site was transferred to Union Christian College Museum Aluva, in 1998. where P.J.Cherian was teaching history. P.J.Cherian was also in charge of reorganizing the museum of Union Christian college.  This fact has been mentioned by Shajan K.Paul in his P.hD thesis (Chapter 2) submitted to Cochin University (CUSAT) in 1998. Later P.K.Gopi acquired license from the Archaeological Survey of India  (F.No. 1\36\97- March 01-2004) for excavation at Pattanam. By the time some unknown antiquities were transferred from the site to Union Christian College Museum. What are the antiquities transferred to the Union Christian College Museum? There are rumours that some antiquities have  also been implanted at Pattanam as a pre-planned strategy.