JOURNAL 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL. 
Part I. HISTORY, LITERATURE, &e. 
No. III.—1877. 
Notice of apre-historic Burial Blace with Cruciform Monoliths , near 3fun- 
gapet in the Nizam's Dominions.—By William King, Dcpy. Supdt ., 
Geol. Sur. of India. 
(With two Plates.) 
About eight miles W. S. W. of Mungapet (Paluncha Taluq), oil the 
right bank of the Godavari, and on the road to Hanamconda, I passed 
over the strange place of sepulture described in this paper. It is in the 
midst of, and overgrown with, forest and scrub jungle, and is cjuite out of 
the ordinary route of European travellers; but as the tombs have been 
opened and there are signs of excavation, apparently of other hands than 
those of despoilers, it is possible that this spot has been visited and de¬ 
scribed by some previous observer. The only notice I can find having 
reference to like places in the neighbouring country is that of Colonel 
C. L. R. Glasfurd (Report of the “ Upper Godavery District, 1868,”) who 
says: “ But scattered here and there in the forests, and on the sides of 
hills, are found the remains of a race before whose antiquity even the 
ancient Hindu dynasties of the Peninsula of India must probably give 
way. I allude to the megalitliic monuments of Indo-Scytliic sepulture, 
consisting of cromlechs, kistvaens and cairns, which have been found in 
four of the six taluqs of this district.” This account answers generally 
for the locality under description, except for the presence of some stone 
crosses, which in my experience of such burial-places in Southern India, are 
quite unique. Other ruder and perhaps more ancient remains (commonly 
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