An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c9.s17.111

v1.c9.s17.111

At ARIKAMEDU, Pondicherry State, the black-and-red ware continues side by side with the rouletted ware (*c.* 1st century A.D.) but the ‘Āndhra’ russet-coated painted ware is absent. But in the upper Kaveri valley around Karur, as ALAGARAI, etc., along with the black-and-red ware a variety painted with dots, slashes, etc., which is seemingly prior to the wavy line variety and probably coeval with ‘Āndhra’ variety, as found at BRAHMAGIRI and CHANDRAVALLI, is profusely met with at habitation sites. No information, however, for corresponding burial sites is available. In the same State two sites have been excavated, one at SOUTTOUKENI and the other at MOUTTRAPALAEON (Casal, 1956). The former yielded a legged terracotta sarcophagus within a stone circle, sealing a large port-holed cist, the port-hole hardly better than a kennel hole. Not much of pottery or iron objects were recovered. The other sites yielded, in individual urn pits, urns covered with a lid and having bone fragments, pottery and iron objects similar to those found at AMIRTHAMANGALAM.