MEGALITHIC BURIAL EXCAVATED IN PULLUR BANDA. ANDHRA PRADESH

The State Department of Archaeology and Museums has excavated cairn megalithic burials in the village of  Pullur Banda in Siddpet Mandal of Medak in Andhra Pradesh. The surface of the monument had a circle of about 10 to 15 boulders with a tall menhir by its side. A large capstone having a possible weight of about 8 tonnes was fragmented into 3 pieces was found in the burial.

Excavation of a megalithic burial site in Pullurubanda in Medak in Andhra Pradesh

One burial has yielded various iron finds as daggers, arrowheads, forceps, javelins along with Black Ware, Red Ware and Black and Red ware potteries and a small broken clay ring. Another megalithic burial about 30 meters west of the menhir, pots of Black and Red Ware along with a pot comprising of bones. 

The department has discovered about 50 megalithic sites spread to around 20 acres of land. Ms Sunita Bhagat, the Director of the said Department stated that the region houses Stone Circles, Menhirs, Dolmenoid Cists and Dolmens and also that the bone pieces have been sent to Indian Institute of Chemical Technology for dating the bones which would thereby date the megaliths.

Source: http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/Archaeologists-Unearth-1000BC-Megalithic-Burial-Site-in-Medak/2015/08/10/article2966775.ece#