{"id":40811,"date":"2019-01-21T18:31:53","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=40811"},"modified":"2019-01-21T18:31:53","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T13:01:53","slug":"asi-finds-2300-year-old-artefacts-in-odisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/asi-finds-2300-year-old-artefacts-in-odisha\/","title":{"rendered":"ASI finds 2,300-year-old artefacts in Odisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/other-states\/asi-finds-2300-year-old-artefacts-in-odisha\/article26044456.ece\">ASI finds 2,300-year-old artefacts in Odisha<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Archeological Survey of India finds 2,300-year-old artefacts in Odisha<\/p>\n<p><strong>Important Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artefacts believed to be 2,300-year-old at the Asurgarh Fort in Odisha\u2019s Kalahandi district.<\/li>\n<li>It reveals a number of brick structures. Wedge shaped bricks are also noticed in the circular structures.<\/li>\n<li>Most of the structures have terracotta tiles with grooves and hole for socketing.<\/li>\n<li>It is assumed that Asurgarh people during that time probably used stone rubbles and tile fragments for flooring their houses and the streets.<\/li>\n<li>Silver punch marked coins, silver and copper toe ring and earrings, beads of carnelian, jasper, beryl, garnet, agate and coral has also been found.<\/li>\n<li>Other discovered artefacts include, glass bangle pieces of different designs and colours, sling balls, pestle, iron equipment like small wheel, ring, and arrow head.<\/li>\n<li>Silver punch mark coins indicates about long distant trade and association of hinterland people with seafaring people.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Asurgarh Fort<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fort is surrounded by moat on its northern, eastern and southern sides.<\/li>\n<li>Sandul river flows to the north.<\/li>\n<li>The fort had four wide gates in four cardinal directions and at each gate was installed one guardian deity.<\/li>\n<li>Deities are named as Ganga at the eastern gate, Kalapat at the western, Vaishnavi at the northern and Dokri at the southern gate,<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASI finds 2,300-year-old artefacts in Odisha News: Archeological Survey of India finds 2,300-year-old artefacts in Odisha Important Facts: Artefacts believed to be 2,300-year-old at the Asurgarh Fort in Odisha\u2019s Kalahandi district. It reveals a number of brick structures. Wedge shaped bricks are also noticed in the circular structures. Most of the structures have terracotta tiles&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/asi-finds-2300-year-old-artefacts-in-odisha\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ASI finds 2,300-year-old artefacts in Odisha<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700774619,"cached_date":1704874174},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}