Detailed Report of an Archaeological Tour with the Buner Field Force - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1151641677 ISBN 13: 9781151641670

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1898 Excerpt: ... off to Dagar and R6ga, I proceeded with a small partyfrom the 5th Company, Bengal Sappers and Miners, which the Officer Commanding Royal Engineers could spare from road-making work, to the site of Gumbatai. The ruins as shown in the site plan on Plate No. /// occupy a broad open glen at the south foot of the Jaffar hill, enclosed in a semi-circle by rocky ridges. The remains now visible above ground form two distinct groups. The larger one lies on a small terrace-like plain at the very entrance of the glen, raised about 50 feet above the level of the river banks. The second group, about 100 feet higher up, is built on the hillside to the north, where the steep slope is broken by a small projecting spur. At the east end of the lower group rises a ruined Stupa which in its present state of destruction forms a mound of roughly circular shape, about 55 feet in diameter at its present base and circ. 30 feet high. The level ground immediately adjoining the Stopa mound in the west is flanked on the north and south sides by two thick walls, 60 feet long, which form a kind of court (marked A; see detailed plan, Plate IV). Attached to the west end of each wall is a small circular structure containing a round chamber of 14 feet diameter. Little is left above ground of the walls of these round structures. But from their position and size it can be assumed with great probability that they were intended like the corresponding round chambers in the ruined monasteries of Guniar, Takht-i-Bahi, etc., to serve as chapels for the reception of more important images. The two walls referred to extend on the east only up to a line which would pass through the centre of the Stupa. There are no traces of any walls or buildings to the east of the Stupa, nor of any other structure whi...

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• ISBN 10: 1151641677
• ISBN 13: 9781151641670
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