An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.22

v2.c46.22

The Khapa stone circles give evidence of sometimes one and sometimes more than one person having been buried within a circle. In several cases full-length skeletons oriented n.-s. and in some a few bone pieces have been found kept either in a pottery bowl or in one case in a copper dish. The equipment buried with the dead comprises flat rectangular axes of iron with cross, fasteners, chisels and adzes of different types, swords, lances, spears and daggers, objects of toilet like nail-parers, kitchenware like frying pans, beads of various shapes made of mostly carnelian and agate, the noteworthy among the former being those etched in white, and copper dishes with lids or covers of tapering top having a finial with a motif of either four birds perching face to face or four birds with pointed ends. No gold ornaments, like those at MAHURJHARI, have been encountered.