An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c30.123

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**Chandraketugarh**, (22°41'; 88°42'), Dt 24 Parganas, 35 km n.-e. of Calcutta, covering an area of 3 sq km of rolling mounds and a *garh*, ruined fort, with rampart walls, enclosed in the villages of BERACHAMPA, Deolia, Hadipur, Shanpur, Jhikra, etc. The site is enormously rich in surface finds. In 1907 A.L. Longhurst visited Berachampa and recovered early historical pottery and bricks (cf. *ASI—AR 1922-3*, p. 109), R.D. Banerji explored it in 1909 and noticed footed querns [6.19], mother goddess figurines [12.6] and the fragment of a highly polished pillar. He also listed silver and copper vessels, a seal, terracotta spindle whorls [6.25], etc. (Banerji, 1911, 1923). The explorer Kalidas Datta realized the importance of the site and induced the Asutosh Museum to excavate it.