An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c36.99

v2.c36.99

rings, spearheads and a pan and a brass bell [6.3] around. The sarcophagus, over 2 m long, 23 cm wide and with 12·7 cm thick walls, had been cut into two halves before burning and had a finger-tip decoration near the outer rim. It was covered by a concavo-convex lid. The other subpit had no iron objects but pottery in profusion. After the deposit of the funerary goods both the subpits were covered with heaped-up brown soil, whereafter the whole pit was finally packed with black soil mixed with laterite, over which again brown earth with laterite was rammed.