[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c48.25 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c48.25 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c48.25 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c48.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.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 \[11.23\]. - [Previous: v2.c48.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c48.24) - [Next: v2.c48.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c48.26) - [Up: v2.c48](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c48) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c48.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c48.25) · Pramāṇa