Turning to the temples of Lakkundi, also near Gadag, one comes across temples in the construction of which sandstone,
till then usual, is totally abandoned in favour of a fine- textured, soft, chloritic schist stone that is quarried naturally in lesser thicknesses.
Their earlier temples such as the Navalinga group and the Kallesvara at Kukkanur near Gadag( Dharwar district),
assignable to the latter half of the tenth century, are perhaps the last among the structures that were built of sandstone, and mark the end of the sandstone- trap rock tradition.