An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c28.31

v2.c28.31

No specific direct or comparative dating for the Adichanallur burials has been possible, although in view of their qualitative divergences and at the same time basic common factors in the form of pottery, iron objects and the shape of the pyriform peduncular urns it might be appropriate to place them within the chronological framework and time bracket of the Megalithic burials, perhaps in the middle of the 1st millennium B.C. It is customary to date the urn-burials below the AMARAVATI *stūpa*, to the 3rd century B.C. or earlier. Owing to the complex nature of the associated finds the site calls for a controlled and systematic excavation.