An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c42.330

v2.c42.330

The Chandakapur Tekdi gave the remains of a *stūpa* with a diameter of 41·6 m without any railing or gateways. The technique of its construction is different from that of the Jagannath one, inasmuch as here a system of brick platforms of receding dimensions with the outer facing of baked brick and with tiers of clay and burnt brick in the interior has been employed. The reliquary [12.8] consists of a pot painted in black bands on lightbrown, somewhat of the type found at RANGMAHAL in the Kushan period [11.24]. This *stūpa* can be dated on numismatic and ceramic evidences to between c. 1st century B.C. and 2nd century A.D. The *stūpa* seems to have been destroyed by floods.