About this monument
The site, known as Chandraketu’s Fort, a legend without any basis, has severely disturbed mud rampart. The University of Calcutta conducted excavation at the site from 1956-57 to 1966-67. The excavation has revealed almost a continuous sequence of occupation, divided into six periods from the pre-Mauryan to Pala period. The protected limits consist of an earthen rampart only. The area contains ancient habitational deposits. Besides NBP ware and black slipped ware, pieces of roulette ware, beads, punch marked and cast copper coins, the site has yielded exquisite terracotta figurines of the Maurya, Sunga and Kushana periods. Recent excavation by Kolkata Circle of ASI on the rampart wall has yielded antiquities of different periods from the piled up earthen mass.
Site plan
Site plan from the ASI Inventory of Monuments and Sites of National Importance, Vol. VII Part IV, Kolkata Circle (2015).
Photographs
Visitor Amenities
Facilities available here.
- Cultural Notice Board (CNB) in English, Hindi and Bengali
- Protection Notice Board
Source: ASI Kolkata Circle — Monument Site-wise Amenities List.
- Locality
- Berachampa, North 24 Parganas
- Coordinates
- 22° 40′ 47″ N, 88° 41′ 29″ E
- Sub-circle
- Kolkata Sub-Circle
- Category
- Protected Monument
- Gazette Sl. No.
- 63
- Access
- Free entry
- Airport
- N.S.C.B.I. Airport, Dum Dum
- Railway station
- Haroa
- Bus station
- Berachampa
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