An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.789

v2.c45.789

The total impression is that this well-organized fortified centre was in a high stage of culture displaying an advanced technique of defence and layout of an urban character which the inhabitants attained by their own merits and efforts. This then must have been a very important establishment in the early historical times. So extensive was the fort that numerous signs of habitation are traceable even outside the fortification and the reported finds of microliths (information from A. Ghosh) and a Neolithic celt (*IAR 1969-70*, p. 60) of the rounded butt-end variety from a mound adjacent to the bridge over the Gangua river to the immediate w. together with the two shouldered celts (*AI*, 16, 1960, p. 59) recovered from inside the fort unquestionably point to an early origin of the site.