An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c37.1284

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**Kunda,** Dt Meerut. Historical mound (of unspecified nature). *IAR 1970-1.* **Kunda Himaya.** *See* CHANDRAPRABHA VALLEY. **Kundalanaickenpatti,** Dt Madurai. Megalithic [4.17.9] site with about a dozen stone circles. *IAR 1956-7.* **Kundalasangama,** Dt Bijapur. (?) Mesolithic [4.5] site yielding scrapers, awls and points. *IAR 1972-3.* **Kundala valley,** Dt E. Nimar. Lower and Upper Palaeolithic [4.2, 4] tools were found. *IAR 1959-60.* **Kundam,** Dt Jabalpur. Series I and Series II (Lower and Middle Palaeolithic [4.2, 3] tools. *IAR 1958-9.* **Kundanpur** (22°5′; 71°10′), Dt Rajkot. Late Harappa [4.10] site corresponding to RANGPUR II B and II C. *AI*, 18 & 19, 1962 & 1963, p. 206. **Kundargi,** Dt Belgaum. Megalithic [4.17.8] site with menhirs. (Same as following?). *Progress Rep. Kannada Res. Inst.*, 1947-52, p. 14. **Kundargi,** (16°05′; 74°48′), Dt Belgaum. Middle Palaeolithic [4.3] site. *See* GHATAPRABHA VALLEY. (Same as preceding?). **Kundari,** Dt Allahabad. Megalithic [4.17.3] site. *IAR 1963-4.* **Kundarkocha.** *See* DHALBHUM AREA. **Kundidih,** Dt Allahabad. Late Stone Age (Mesolithic [4.5]) site. *IAR 1963-4.* **Kundinpur.** *See* KAUṆḌINYAPURA. **Kundni,** Dt Rajkot. Harappa [4.9] site. *IAR 1957-8.* **Kundrasanhalli,** Dt Kolar. Megalithic stone circles [4.17.8]. *IAR 1970-1.* **Kundukottai,** Dt Dharmapuri. Megalithic sites with dolmenoid cists and circle stones [4.17.9]. *IAR 1967-8.* **Kunduripi,** Dt Anantapur. Neolithic [4.6.8] habitation site also with early historical [4.18.10] pottery. *See* AKKAMMAKONDA. *IAR 1965-6.* **Kunjaram,** Dt Chingleput. Early and Middle Stone Age (Lower and Middle Palaeolithic [4.2, 3]) tools. *See* CUNJALLUM. *IAR 1963-4.* **Kunjla,** Dt Ranchi. Asura site [14.4] 4 km s.-s.-w of Khunti. The mound is covered with brick and pottery. Excavation exposed ruins of a brick house, almost complete on plain, measuring 19 × 6 m. The antiquities discovered in the excavation included a good number of iron objects. The pottery is coarse in fabric, thick in section and made of badly levigated clay with small bits of quartz. Roy, S.C., 1915, in *Jour. Bihar & Orissa Res. Soc.*, 1. p. 237. Excavated by A. Ghosh (not published). **Kunkune,** Dt Purulia. A handaxe of green micaceous quartzite was found in 1865 near Gobindapur. Logan, A.C., 1906, *Old Chipped Stone of India*, London pp. 30-3. Brown, C.J., 1917. *Catalogue of Prehistoric Antiquities in the Indian Museum at Calcutta*, Simla, p. 67. **Kunnattur,** Dt Chingleput, excavated by B. Saran of the ASI during 1955-7 (*IAR 1955-6*, p. 23; *1956-7*, p. 31) to lay bare the Megalithic remains [4.17.9] and to correlate them with a habitation site. Three main types of Megalithic burials were exposed along with the remains of the early historical [4.18.12] and late historical [4.19.10] periods. The magalithic types were the cairn circle, state dolmenoid cist and sarcophagi [12.9], besides a few pyriform urns. From these megaliths were obtained sherds of the Black-and-red Ware [11.15.3] and red and black wares.