An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.145

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**Pandu Rajar Dhibi** (23°35′; 87°39′), Dt Burdwan, situated in village Panduk in the flood-plains of the Ajay amidst the typical rural surroundings of Rādha on a red lateritic [9.6] undulating plain, the mounds locally known as Rajar Dhibi or Raja Pota Danga and associated with legendary king Pāṇḍu. In 1914 a gold coin of Narasiṁhagupta Bālāditya was picked up at the site; a few medieval sculptures found here are locally worshipped. In 1961 a few microliths [4.14.4], sherds of the black-and-red ware [11.6.5] and shiny black-painted red ware sherds were collected from the site by the writer and S.C. Mukherjee, both of the Directorate of Arch., W. Bengal (*AIR 1960-1*, p. 67). Large-scale excavation was undertaken here by the Directorate under P.C. Das Gupta during 1962-5 (*IAR 1962-3*, p. 43; *1963-4*, p. 61; *1964-5*, p. 48), revealing a cultural assemblage of four distinct Pds, Pds I and II Chalcolithic [4.14.4], Pd III of the Iron Age [4.16] with an overlap with the preceding Pd, and Pd IV early historical [4.18.5] and medieval.