[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v1.c19.s15.14 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s15.14 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s15.14 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c19.s15.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s15.14) Among the early historical sites with brick-lined wells are: UJJAJN, NBPW levels \[11.16\], Pd II, datable between \*c.\* 200 B.C. and the beginning of the Christian era; RAJGHAT⁴, where one of the wells was raised at a later period by the addition of terracotta rings and seven brick courses, another had a brick pavement, and particularly a third one, of the 4th-5th century remarkable for the thickness of its wall, the inner diameter 2·35 and the outer 7·76 m and for its lime-plastered surface; PRAHLADPUR, NBPW levels; SAHETH-MAHETH, late Kushan levels, with an internal diameter of 2·28 m, 2·14 m broad and 46 cm high parapet; KUŚĪNAGARA, many examples, one of them square and surmounted by a low circular platform 3·12 m and another circular 1·73 m in diameter with a well-head 2·60 m in diameter; KUMRAHAR, Gupta period (Spooner, in \*ASI-AR, 1912-3\*; Altekar and Mishra, 1959, p. 31); BHITA, where each house has a well, datable between the 1st and 5th centuries A.D. one of them composed of wedge-shaped brick and terracotta rings respectively on top and lower portions and others of wedge-shaped brick; Brahmanabad in Sind (Cousens, 1929, p. 50), with two wells made of 'curved moulded bricks' having a diameter of about 2·44 m; VAIŚĀLĪ (\*ASI-AR 1903-4\*, p. 92), three square masonry wells adjoining each other of the Gupta period, the smallest one having two holes in each of its eastern sides which seem to have held two wooden beams laid across the well at about half its depth; SAMBHAR, where a well with a steening wall was sunk in one of the rooms of a house; NASIK, brick-lined wells datable between 300 and 200 B.C.; NĀLANDĀ, where amongst the many wells one excavated in a corner of the court of Monastery 6 is octagonal on the upper part and circular below; PEDDABANKUR, Megalithic \[4.17.8\], circular wells lined with wedge-shaped brick; VADGAON-MADHAVPUR, a square brick-lined well; and TRIPURĪ, where a large brick well with brick-on-edge flooring around its periphery was excavated outside a \*vihāra\*. - [Previous: v1.c19.s15.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s15.13) - [Next: v1.c19.s15.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s15.15) - [Up: v1.c19.s15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s15) ## Linked texts (11) - [Vaiśālī](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.vaisali) - [Nālandā](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.nalanda) - [Nāsik](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.nasik) - [Kumrahar](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.kumrahar) - [Peddabankur](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.peddabankur) - [Sahēṭh-Mahēṭh](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.saheth-maheth) - [Kusinagara (Kasia)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.kusinagara) - [Bhita](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.bhita) - [Brahmanabad (Mansura, Sindh)](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.brahmanabad) - [Prahladpur](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.prahladpur) - [Sambhar](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.sambhar) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s15.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v1.c19.s15.14) · Pramāṇa