An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c48.25

v2.c48.25

Excavations from 1972 to 1977 by the Dept. of Ancient Indian Hist. and Epigraphy and the Inst. of the Karnatak Univ. (*IAR 1972-3*) have revealed that the cultural debris is about 4·25 m thick at the maximum overlying the natural soil of disintegrated laterite, divisible into nine layers that resolve into three phases of a single culture with brick structures, pottery, beads, terracotta figurines, coins, iron objects, etc. The three phases, from top downwards, are respectively dated to *c.* middle of the 1st to the 2nd century A.D., *c.* 2nd century B.C. to the middle of the 1st century A.D. and *c.* 3rd century B.C. on the basis of datable coins and the Red Polished Ware [11.23].