An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c29.1068

v2.c29.1068

Seshadri, 1956, re-explored the site and collected flake tools of jasper, chert, etc., such as scrapers, and assigned them to Pre-I A phase of Wheeler. In 1965 the writer collected two copper objects from the sieved debris and black-painted red ware sherds of the late Jorwe fabric [11.11] from the surface; in 1978 he found similar painted sherds from the overlapping layers of Pd I B and the Megalithic, remnants of scoriaceous ashy slag at the corner of one of Wheeler’s trenches and noticed a large-size engraved outline of an elephant on a huge boulder near the Akkatangiyara temple of c. 11th-12th century.