Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c9.28

c9.28

The apparent (though not proved) absence of the distinctive port-hole from the Karāchi series seems to extend to the few other cists which have been recorded, though not recently seen, in the north. These include cists, with cairns and stone circles, noted long ago 'in the hilly districts of Delhi, Mirzapur, and Orissa'; and another 'six feet square and about four feet in height' at Deosa, a village thirty-two miles east of Jaipur in Rājasthān; and yet others eighteen miles south-east of Almora in U.P., and in the remoter depths of the Himālayan massif in the Leh valley of Ladakh, near the western border of Tibet. The fact remains, however, that, whatever future research may reveal in the north, it cannot upset the huge preponderance of megalithic cists in the south, particularly of the significant port-holed type.