An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.244

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Bulandibagh, already tapped by Spooner, was re-excavated in 1926-7 by J.A. Page and M. Ghosh (*ASI—AR 1926-7*, p. 135), resulting in the discovery of an e.-w. wooden structure running as excavated for a distance of about 137 m. It is a wall made of heavy wooden sleepers placed vertically in a double row, with similar sleepers joining them horizontally at the bottom and is thought to be a part of the wooden palisade seen by Megasthenes. In 1935 a similar structure was found at Gosainkhanda, 800 m to the e. of Bulandibagh but in a reversed fashion, viz. vertical sleepers capped by horizontal ones (*ASI—AR 1935-6*, p. 54). Remnants of the wooden structure have been found to have extended to other localities of Patna, though no coherent plan is available.