An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c50.38

v2.c50.38

Excavation at the temple-site revealed at the lowest level four different types of megaliths: dolmenoid cist with a partition; a cist within cist with port-holes; an urn burial with post-exposure burial; and pit circles, one of them disclosing a joint extended inhumation burial. The individual buried in the urn was mesocranial (79.17) whereas the dolmenoid cist produced an adult male, an adult female and a child about three years old. While the female was brachycranial (82.08), the adult male was a tall person having a long head (72.58). In the joint burial one was a female with mesocranial index (76.16) and the other a tall long-headed (72.73) male. These megaliths have to be dated much earlier than the 3rd century A.D. when the site was selected for the erection of a temple-complex.