LAL PUTARIA: ITWA SHELTERS

(Panna Tahsil - IN)
24.783300,80.375000
Grottocenter / carte

Description

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/04/2016

A rock shelter (or cave?) containing many superimposed paintings (rock art), e.g. elephant and triangular human figures), reports GUPTA (1984: 202-203) from an unspecified location somewhere in the vicinity of the village of Itwa (note 1).

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/04/2016

NOTE 1: Itwa N24°47': E080°22'30” (±500 m): 350 m asl (±25 m) is shown on AMS sheet NG44-14 Panna (U502 series, 1959 edition) and on the India Road Atlas (Eicher Goodearth 2006: 55 H1) at a linear distance of about 20 km from Panna town (N24°43': E080°12') on the road approximately east-northeast towards Paharikhera (N24°51': E080°31').

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