Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c9.36

c9.36

The earlier time-bracket is less firmly defined. On the town-site at Brahmagiri the 'megalithic' strata were three to four feet in vertical depth. What this accumulation represents in time is very conjectural, but two to three centuries might not appear unreasonable. I have in fact suggested 200 B.C. as a schematic date for the beginning of the 'megalithic' occupation there. The guess may err on the short side, but a date not earlier than the 3rd century B.C. would be consistent with the recorded finding of a bronze coin of Eran, ascribed to the 3rd or 2nd century B.C., in a port-holed cist at Sulur, again in the Coimbatore district.