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Our ancestors used sekkuwa (Oil Pressure) to grid coconuts to produce oil out of them.The root sekkuwa runs more than 300 years back and a village called Sekkupitiya.But now there is no Sekkuwa to be seen even though people who visit the place can have imaginary of sekkuwa by viewing the location

Sekkuwa was at most of the coastal houses in the ancient Sri Lanka and they added extra residential beauty. At present, Sri Lanka young generation and foreigners who visit Sri Lanka for researching our history can find pictures of sekkuwa in various books but rarely can they find actual operational sekkuwa in our villages now.

The mechanic of how sekkuwa operates, though simple, is a complex technology that was a grand evidence of our ancestors technological knowledge .They put dried coconut in to a stone mortar where a pestle was set to another plank which they tied around a neck of an ox with ropes. Then they made the ox to run around the mill which made the liver operate inside the mill producing oil out of the coconut placed in the mortar.