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<< Our Photo Pages >> Punkri Burwadih - Chambered Tomb in India

Submitted by Subhashis Das on Wednesday, 23 May 2012  Page Views: 4127

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Punkri Burwadih
Country: India
NOTE: This site is 62.57 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Hazaribagh  Nearest Village: Hethgarha
Latitude: 23.872222N  Longitude: 85.243056E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
3 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
0No data.
no data Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Punkri Burwadih
Punkri Burwadih submitted by Andy B : The 2012 Vernal Equinox at Punkri Burwadih See link below for more photos. Photo copyright Subhashis Das Site in India (Vote or comment on this photo)
Subhashis Das writes: Punkri Burwadih is a burial tomb of the tribal people but the monument displays astronomical connotations.

Punkri Burwadih is a wonder…not only because it is a wonderful megalithic siite but
because it is a megalith which reveals the ancients’ precise understanding of horizon astronomy and also of the transits of the sun.

Each stone here is positioned in alignment to prime peaks or notches of the
surrounding hills, mathematical ratios and even to major sunrises and
sets. A small stone ‘A’ which has been made to function as a pointer, is arranged in a
North-South position to the west of a larger menhir. This stone is placed
is such a manner that it is linear to the crevice between the two larger
menhirs which faces the mid-winter sunrise.

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Punkri Burwadih
Punkri Burwadih submitted by Andy B : The Punkri Burwadih in her full glory before the stone fell. See link below for more photos. Photo copyright Subhashis Das Site in India (Vote or comment on this photo)

Punkri Burwadih
Punkri Burwadih submitted by Andy B : The workers and villagers haul the menhir back to a carefully aligned upright position. See link below for more photos of the operation. Photo copyright Subhashis Das Site in India (Vote or comment on this photo)

Punkri Burwadih
Punkri Burwadih submitted by Andy B : The fallen menhir. Aloke Rana stands by a depressed Subhashis Das. Photo copyright Subhashis Das Site in India (Vote or comment on this photo)

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The 2012 Vernal Equinox at Punkri Burwadih by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 June 2013
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The viewing of the Vernal Equinox sunrise on the 20th March in Punkri Burwadih was held very successfully. Enthusiastic viewers congregated at the megaliths from very early morn and one even flew all the way from New York for the event. Venantious as he is named had already witnessed sunrises in Stonehenge and Avebury was here to experience the sunrise in PB in India.

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http://www.megalithindia.in/2012/03/2012-vernal-equinox-in-punkri-burwadih.html
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The Restoration of the Fallen Menhir of Punkri Burwadih by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 June 2013
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Subhashis Das writes: Punkri Burwadih is perhaps the most eminent megalith of India, yet it is not protected by the government. Here people gather to view the Equinox sunrises twice every year during the vernal and the autumnal equinoxes thereby making it the only megalith in India for this purpose.

On the morning of 7th August one of the Hindi National Dailies reported the falling of one of the menhirs at Punkri Burwadih. The news was also conveyed to me on Facebook. This was heart-wrecking...I along with one of my co-workers Aloke Rana dashed to the site some 23 kms from my hometown of Hazaribagh.

What I saw there could not stop my tears from gushing out. One of the main menhirs M1 which along with the other menhir M2 enabled the creation of the "V" form, had fallen. Seeing me the villagers immediately gathered. I was told by Krishna Sao, my local help that village children every day would climb or dash upon it after a race...this being done everyday and with the earth around it gotten loose due to the heavy rains coerced the menhir to fall.

We immediately rushed to the Block office to meet the local Block Development Officer. He being absent the Circle Officer was in-charge who had already read of the catastrophe in the papers and was expecting me. He assured immediate help whatever I needed. I requested the local administration to immediately have the menhir restored to her original position. The CO agreed to do this under my supervision and the date that was fixed for the job was the next day.

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http://www.megalithindia.in/2012/08/the-restoration-of-fallen-menhir-of.html
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Rajat Chandra sings about the fascinating megaliths of Punkri Birwadih by Andy B on Tuesday, 11 June 2013
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Rajat Chandra sings about the fascinating megaliths of Punkri Birwadih. As far as we know this is the first ever song composed about a megalithic site in India.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExwEz6DAxWA



With thanks to Subhashis Das for the link
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