An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c30.140

v2.c30.140

Wheeler’s excavation did not tackle any megalith, nor did it encounter any structural remains. But during 1928-29 Krishna had laid as many as 40 trenches and exposed Megalithic cists [4.17] as well, which had neither the bounding circles nor the buttressing found at BRAHMAGIRI. Chronologically they are earlier than the Sātavāhana period and also overlap with it. No painted pottery was recovered from them. In one cist a skeleton in a flexed position was noticed. Some of the pots contained teeth and bones of animals. Interesting is the find of what appears to be the legs of sarcophagus [12.9] from one of the cists.