An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.221

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**Nanoor, Nanur** (23°42'; 87°51'), Dt Birbhum, celebrated as the birth-place of Chaṇḍīdāsa, the famous medieval Bengali lyric poet, the mound here lying adjacent to a series of temples and named after him. It was excavated by the Calcutta University in 1945-6 (Goswami, 1950). The excavation, though proving to be of little consequence, produced evidence of an ill-defined occupation during Maurya-Śuṅga times, the pottery types including a few characteristic shapes of the Chalcolithic black-and-red ware [11.6.5], which however did not receive due consideration at that time.