An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.35

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**Takiaper**, Dt Varanasi, on the right bank of the Karamnasa, about 10 km n.-w. of Chakia, subjected to a small excavation by the writer on behalf of the Banaras Hindu Univ. in 1972, bringing to light an extensive settlement of the early centuries of the Christian era. Besides a burnt-brick phase evidence of an earlier stone structural phase in post-NBPW levels has been discovered whereas elsewhere in the Ganga valley burnt-brick structures come into vogue all of a sudden either in the late NBPW [4.18.1] levels or more commonly in the post-NBPW ones. The excavation has revealed two Pds, the early NBPW (Pd I) and post-NBPW (Pd II). A small conflagration between them denotes a break.