[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c40.221 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.221 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.221 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c40.221](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.221) \*\*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. - [Previous: v2.c40.220](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.220) - [Next: v2.c40.222](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.222) - [Up: v2.c40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40) ## Cites (1) - [Nanur](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.site.nanur) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.221](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.221) · Pramāṇa