An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c35.210

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**Hemmige** (12°28′; 70°45′), a small village in T. Narsipur Taluk, Dt Mysore, located on the bank of the Kaveri, 12 km e. of T.NARSIPUR, known as Hemmoge, ‘large fort’ in a Kannada inscription of Śrīpuruṣa (726-80) of the W. Ganga dynasty. In 1960-1 were discovered by the ASI (*IAR 1960-1*, p. 28) a site with the Russet-coated Painted Ware [11.22], etc., near the village and another with microliths and other Neolithic-Chalcolithic [4.6.9; 4.14.8] remains about 1 km away on a land in the midst of the river. In the same year the Karnataka State Dept of Arch. explored these sites and found that they were likely to provide material for the study of the Neolithic-Chalcolithic and early historical periods [4.18.10], corresponding to the faintly known Pds II and IV of T. NARSIPUR, the only site systematically excavated till then in the Kaveri valley. The extant portions of the sites designated as Area A and Area B, the latter called Adiyanatithu, are small. In 1964 the sites were excavated (Rao and Nagaraju, 1974).