Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c9.16

c9.16

4. Deep-pit burials, within a stone circle but without a cist, and as much as eight feet in depth, were found at Brahmagiri, where there may have been something like a dozen of them amongst three hundred megalithic cists. On the floor of each of the pits, amongst many pots with iron implements and a few human bones, were four flat slabs, placed as though to support a table or bier. I have suggested that these deep pit-circles may have been macerating pits where the [obscured text] were laid out for the process of excarnation which certainly preceded burial in the neighbouring cists; but I do not press the hypothesis. Comparable pit-circles, but without the four floor-slabs, have been found at Maski in the Deccan.89