An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c29.1075

v2.c29.1075

Within the cist were placed funeral pots and other objects such as iron implements, beads and whorls kept on the floor slab. The pots vary in number, for example, from six in Megalith V to 62 in Megalith X. On these was spread a thin layer of sand about 15 cm thick. The post-excarnate human skeletal remains were placed on this layer, in some cases of more than one person, along with a few more pots. Thereafter the cist was filled up with earth. Besides these pots and objects the occurrence of over 40 tiny white beads of magnesite or dolomite in Megalith IV as also in Megalith VII and the absence of iron objects in Megalith V are noteworthy.