| Identification / पहचान | |
| Reference Number / संदर्भ संख्या | AP07007573 |
| Built Heritage/Site निर्मित धरोहर / स्थल |
Built Heritage |
| Name of the Monument / Built Heritage / Site स्मारक / निर्मित धरोहर / स्थल का नाम |
Peddamarrur |
| State / राज्य | Telangana |
| District / जिला | MAHABUBNAGAR |
| Manual District | |
| Sub District / उप-जिला | Others |
| Manual Sub District | |
| Village / गाँव | Others |
| Manual Village | Peddamarrur |
| Cultural Affiliation / सांस्कृतिक सम्बंधन | Prehistoric - प्रागैतिहासिक काल |
| Date/Period तारीख/युग |
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| Geo-Location / भू-अवस्थिति | |
| Latitude / अक्षांश | |
| Longitude / देशान्तर | |
| Approach to the Monument / पहुंचने का मार्ग | |
| Approach /पहुंचने का मार्ग | |
| Air Port / विमानपत्तन | |
| Railway Station / रेलवे स्टेशन | |
| Bus Station / बस स्टैंड | |
| Topographical Features / स्थलाकृतिक विशेषताएं | |
| Topographical Feature / स्थलाकृतिक विशेषताएं | |
| Topographical Description / स्थलाकृतिक विवरण | |
| History / इतिहास | |
| Brief History / संक्षिप्त इतिहास | |
| Local / Traditional description associated with Built Heritage / Site निर्मित धरोहर / स्थल से सम्बंधित स्थानीय/ परम्परागत विवरण |
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| Architectural Style / स्थापत्य शैली | |
| Building/ Structure/Site
इमारत / संरचना / स्थल |
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| Description of Building/ Structure/Site
इमारत/संरचना/स्थल का विवरण |
The Department of Archaeology and Museums, Government of Andhra Pradesh, carried out excavation at the habitation site and also megalithic burials in the vicinity. Excavation at the habitation site revealed two periods of occupation. Period I, probably belonging to the Megalithic Culture or the early historical times, is marked by the occurrence of successive floorings, the earlier ones of rammed kankar and the latter floorings of shale slabs, circumscribed by post-holes, indicating the house patterns. The pottery of the Period consists of red polished, tan, black-and-red black-polished wares. The buff ware is also represented by a few sherds. The common types are vase with beaded and flanged rim, deep bowl, dish, lid and narrow-necked vase with flanged rim. The antiquities recovered from occupational deposit of the Period include pear-shaped and tabloid beads of terracotta beads of jasper, carnelian, rock-crystal bangles of shell , carved with round pellets and copper bangles, decorated with beaded design and iron objects including arrowhead, spearhead, sickle and dish. Period II, assignable to the Satavahana times , is marked by profuse usage of shale stone for constructions. The ceramic industry is dominated by red polished and coarse red wares. Other finds of the Period include beads of terracotta, jasper, carnelian, rock-crystal bangles of shell and copper iron objects including socketed hoe and knives and an oval-shaped stone plaque, depicting a lian standing on a lotus with raised forepaw and tail carving upwards on the obverse, and the reverse divided into two panels by a wavy line enclosed by two bands, multiple arched-hill in the top panel and a lotus in the lower. Excavation of the two megalithic burials from Group I, which is 2 km north of the village, revealed that the type represented is a port-holed cist with passage, bound by stone-circle. The port-hole and the passage are towards the south. The excavated burials in Group 2, lying 3 km south-west of the village, showed interesting featurres. Megalith I is a cist, transepted into three chambers pl. VII B by two upright north-south oriented slabs. The port-hole is in the southern orthostat, leading internally to the central chamber and externally to an oblong passage closed by a slab in the front. The transepting slabs, too, are provided with port-holes. The eastern chamber 2.35 X 0.65 m was tightly packed with pieces of shale slabs, quartzite and red clay up to a depth of 35 cm, below which only small chips of shale and rubble of quartzite packing was encountered. The funerary deposit, under-lying the above packing, consisted of charred bones in urns, forty vases of Black-and-red Ware, black, red and coarse red wares, a small sickle of iron and two rock-crystal beads. The central chamber yielded more than twenty-five vases in bones and calcined skull pieces were noticed along with some pots inside the sarcophagus. Removal of the flooring slab in between the eastern and central chambers revealed a burial-pit in the centre of the cist, yielding urns with bone pieces, ring-stands in black ware, a vase in red ware, a dish in Black-and-red Ware and a miniature pot in black ware. The western chamber, too, yielded a large number of vases and human bones at a depth of 1.35 m . The cist is encircled by horizontally paved large and medium-sized slabs, the outer edge of which are trimmed into semicircular shape, so that they make a neat circle. The intervening space between the cist and the circle is filled with pieces of shale slabs. Megalith II is a cist-burial pl. VI B , the orthostats of which are arranged in contra-clockwise pattern. The port-hole, on the southern orthostat, closed externally by a slab, leads to a passage-chamber. The cist is transepted into two chambers by a vertical slab. The floor of the chambers are provided with slabs. The eastern chamber yielded four skulls, long bones, iron objects such as tw rings, a spatula-like implement and nail ravetted to copper ring in the shape of spindle whorl, usual megalithic pottery, a terracotta figurine of buffalo besides shape of spindle whorl, usual megalithic pottery, a terracotta figurine of buffalo besides a sarcophagus pl. VIII B . The sarcophagus, covered with a lid, has two rows of six legs each and decorated with an applique band of finger impressions below the rim. It yielded a few bones only. |
| Structure material and other material संरचनागत सामग्री और अन्य घटक |
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| Building/Structure material and other material used प्रयोग में लाई गई इमारती / संरचनागत सामग्री और अन्य घटक |
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| Usage(s) & Sub Type | |
| Usage(s) / प्रयोग | |
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| Ownership / स्वामित्व | |
| Protection status / संरक्षण अवस्था | |
| Plan/Elevation विन्यास/उध्र्व विन्यास | |
| Published Reference / प्रकाशित संदर्भ | |
| Author / लेखक | |
| Name / नाम | IAR |
| Year / वर्ष | |
| Published/Unpublished प्रकाशित / अप्रकाशित |
PG. 12, 13 |
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