Glass bangles, iron nails and bones make up all that was yielded in the dig at the site in Unnao district of Uttar Pradesh where a seer had claimed a treasure of gold was buried, Parliament was told on Wednesday.
Replying to a question in Rajya Sabha on the dig carried out by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI), Union Minister of Culture Chandresh Kumari Katoch shared with the House a list of the items that were recovered from the site. "A few shards of black slipware, northern black polished ware, red ware shards of early historical period... Glass bangles, iron nails, fragmentary miniature stone models of lions, terracotta arecanut shaped beads and animal bones were recovered during the excavation," she said.
Noting that ASI had taken up the trial excavation work at the site based on Geological Survey of India report, Katoch said that the dig was stopped in November last year after the natural soil level was reached at the site. It may be recalled that an ASI team had begun a dig for treasure at the 19th century fort of Raja Rao Ram Bux Singh in Unnao's Daundia Kheda village on October 18 last year.
The excavation had come in the wake of claims by a seer that he had had a vision about 1,000 tonnes of gold buried in the ruins of the fort. After unsuccessfully digging at two places, ASI had finally stopped the search for treasure on November 14.
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