2 102 A Maski was one of the rare Megalithic (Iron Age) settlements in the south. The graves here were mostly simple pits with complete or partial burials, sometimes covered with stone slabs. Some individuals, probably children, were buried in unusual tubular pottery sarcophagi.
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3 101 X A thriving Neolithic (2nd millennium BC) and Early Historic village (last centuries BC) Brahmagiri was only periodically occupied in the intervening Megalithic period, when its inhabitants were probably mainly nomadic pastoralists. Nevertheless, they built impressive cist graves of large slabs surrounded by substantial cairns, in which they buried the collected bones of many individuals.
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4 101 X Burials at Sanur were interred in 'bathtub' shaped terracotta sarcophagi with many legs. Several might be placed together in a single grave. The graves themselves were built of undressed boulders arranged loosely as a cist covered by a large capstone. They were surrounded by a cairn and a large stone circle.
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5 102 B Many of the graves excavated at Souttoukeny were pits containing 'bathtub' shaped terracotta sarcophagi but no human bones. One exception, however, was a huge cist of dressed slabs containing two complete burials, accompanied by a mass of pots, bronze vessels and exquisite gold jewellery including pendants in the shape of a lotus flower.
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6 101 X A huge urn cemetery. Although large enough to take a complete body the urns at Mouttrapaleon contained only fractional burials of a few collected bones, or no bones at all. The associated grave goods were mostly pottery but some urns also contained swords, daggers, chisels or other iron tools and weapons.
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7 102 C The isolated northern group constructed megalithic tombs of a simple form, consisting of a large stone circle and a large low cairn beneath or within which burials and grave goods were deposited. Some of the burials were accompanied by iron or elaborate bronze horse-trappings, and sometimes the bodies of the horses themselves, as well as ornate bronze lids and bowls.
