An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c29.51

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**Baghai Khor**, Dt Mirzapur, near Bhainsaur, with painted rock-shelters [13] and microliths of the Mesolithic [4.5] tradition, excavated by R.K Varma of the Univ. of Allahabad. It revealed in its earliest open-air habitational deposit non-geometric microliths blunted-back blades, lunates, awls and burinated tools. The next upper layer had in addition a few small sherds which can be divided into three goups: ill-fired ochre-washed, handmade, of coarse greyish section; thin sectioned and with ochrous red slip; and also thin-sectioned but better fired and well-made. The next upper deposit had microliths of both non-geometric and geometric types alongside the pottery of the earlier deposit. Iron objects were only superficial.