An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c34.490

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The total thickness of the deposit at level 1 ranges. from 28 to 33 cm. The stratigraphy shows the sandstone bed-rock followed by a thin layer of pellety laterite, which is overlain by a round pebbly gravel bearing Lower Palaeolithic [4.2] tools. This gravel is capped by a thin layer of red sandy clay and finally on top of it is humus. At Level 2, 1·2 m thick, the stratigraphy is more or less the same, excepting that the tool-bearing gravel here is 50 cm thick with small and large flakes of sandstone; the tools are larger in number and bear definite Abbevillian and Acheulian characteristics.