| Identification / पहचान | |
| Reference Number / संदर्भ संख्या | AP07007577 |
| Built Heritage/Site निर्मित धरोहर / स्थल |
Built Heritage |
| Name of the Monument / Built Heritage / Site स्मारक / निर्मित धरोहर / स्थल का नाम |
Chagatur |
| State / राज्य | Telangana |
| District / जिला | MAHABUBNAGAR |
| Manual District | |
| Sub District / उप-जिला | Others |
| Manual Sub District | |
| Village / गाँव | Others |
| Manual Village | Chagatur |
| 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 Chagatur situated in between the rivers Krishna and Tungabhadra, as a result of which three cultural periods were brought to light. Period I is represented by structures built of shale stone blocks. The ceramic industry of the period is represented by red polished, black-and-red, black and red wares. Noteworthy antiquities of the Period include terracotta male and female figurines, handmade and double-moulded beads of terracotta, shell, stone discs or spindle whorles of stone ornaments in gold and silver stylus or antimony rod in ivory. Period II is also marked by structures built of shale stone blocks. The structures of this Period are built over those of the earlier one. The ceramic industry of the Period is represented by dull-red and red wares, the types represented being conical bowls and spouts of sprinklers. Other finds recovered from the occupation debris include beads and bangles of shell and terracotta and iron objects like sickle, nail, etc. Period III belongs to the medieval times the relevant strata being very much disturbed . It is marked by the occurrence of grey ware. The antiquities recovered include bangle pieces of glass iron objects beads of glass and a coin issued by Humayun Shah Bahamani. An interesting feature of the excavation was the existence imediately below the occupation of period I of an implementiferous deposit yielding a few tools of Lower palaeolithic age. A megalithic burial site with dolmenoid cists with or without passage and stone-circles, was noticed about half a kilometre west of the above excavated site. one of the burials was excavated. The excavation revealed that the cist was made of four orthostats, arranged in clockwise pattern. The cist is divided by a transepting slab into eastern and western halves. Both the chambers are further sub-divided into northern and southern halves. The northern halves are provided with benches supported by vertical slabs. The chamber has a flooring -slab, over which a skull, some skeletal remains and a few red ware bowls were placed in the ashy deposit. A sprinkler in black polished ware and a few deep bowls in red ware were encountered in the southern halves. The port-hole on the southern orthostat of the cist is provided with a passage on the exterior, flanked by slabs and the front closed by another slab. The passage chamber too yielded fragments of skeletal remains and red ware sherds. There is one more port-hole on the southern orthostat, just below the above one, corresponding to the height of the bench inside. The orthostats are supported from outside by a platform of shale slabs, and the structure is enclosed by dressed stone-circle, and further enclosed by a rectangular chamber of rubble stone masonary pl. V A with an entrance on the south. Interesting feature of the burial pl. V B are four huge stone-slabs, erected on all the cardinal directions and occurrence of skeletal remains and megalithic red ware sherds outside the cist. Another noteworthy feature is that the orthostats are decorated with bruised trident across the circle and endless cord design and rows of deep grooves. The most important find fro the burial is a memorial stone, depicting the foot-paints exposed at the level of the stone bench. A small-scale excavation at the mound locally known as Pydigutta, where a hemispherical stone structure looking like a dump of shale slabs, standing to a height of 4.57 m in an area oa about 0.6 hectare, revealed three periods of occupation. Period I is represented by burnished black and grey wares, microlithic blades and cores in jasper, quartz etc., rubber stone , sling balls and a few steatite beads. Period II is marked by the occurrence of brownish-grey, painted black-on-red wares, microlithic blades of jasper and quartz, steatite beads and a piece of copper. Period III, datable to the early historical times, is represented by black-and-red, red and red polished wares, terracotta beads, glass bangles and iron pieces. |
| 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) / प्रयोग | |
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| Ownership / स्वामित्व | |
| Protection status / संरक्षण अवस्था | |
| Plan/Elevation विन्यास/उध्र्व विन्यास | |
| Published Reference / प्रकाशित संदर्भ | |
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| Name / नाम | IAR |
| Year / वर्ष | |
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PG. 11,12 |
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