Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c11.9

c11.9

Opposite the Sagauna Ghat, however, no earlier pebble gravels are exposed but on both the banks there is a thick—over 15 ft.—highly cemented gravel of trap and chalcedony, intercalated by yellowish sandy partings, resting over a laminated clay and capped by light grey silt. Here again this forms a distinct terrace, about 35-40 ft. in height, whereas the topmost is over 60 ft., and the youngest about 10-15 ft. This gravel contains Middle Stone Age (Series II) tools, rolled as well as fresh. There is no doubt that this is the principal horizon of these tools. It is also fossiliferous and where its silt-cover is thinner as one goes in the interior, a little away from the river, the fossils get ploughed up in fields on the Varurewa river, about a mile from Devkachar. (These incidentally are collected by the villagers and passed on to hurried "discoverers"