An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c39.240

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(24°16′; 80°46′), Dt Satna. A Lower Palaeolithic [4.2] factory site is situated at a distance of about 3 km to the w. of the town on both the sides of Sharada temple road. The assemblage is divisible into cores, flakes, waste flakes, handaxes and fragments thereof, cleavers and scrapers. A Megalithic [4.5] site is situated on the left bank of the nullah joining the tiny rivulet Lalji. Microliths in the form of cores, flakes, scrapers, blades, lunates, triangles and points are found scattered over a considerable area. As the objects have been found in different stages of manufacture, the site may be regarded as a factory site.