page_title: Sisupalgarh
section_title: Excavations
hierarchical_section_title: Sisupalgarh / Excavations
caption_attribution_description: ଓଡ଼ିଆ: ଶିଶୁପାଳଗଡ଼, ପୁରୁଣା ଭୁବନେଶ୍ଵରର ଅନତିଦୂରରେ ଦୟାନଦୀ ନିକଟରେ ଏହି ପୁରୁଣା ନଗରର ଭଗ୍ନାବଶେଷ ଏଠାରେ ଦେଖିବାକୁ ମିଳିଥାଏ ।
context_page_description: Sisupalgarh or Sisupalagada is situated in Khurda District in Odisha, India and houses ruined fortifications. It is one of the largest and best preserved early historic fortifications in India, with the earliest occupation both inside and outside the later site´s northern rampart around 7th to 6th centuries BCE.
context_section_description: The first excavations at the site were carried out by B.B. Lal in 1948. An American-Indian team took up work in 2001.
  In 2005 ground penetrating radar revealed the probable position of the southern moat. Toward the centre of the fortress (Area D) the 19 column structure has been recorded three-dimensionally by means of a laser scanner. It is disturbed and incomplete. Two gates pierce each of the glacis of the quadrangular plan.
  As at contemporary Jaugada, the plan tips 10° clockwise of north. With 1125 m x 1115 m (measured on the crest) Sisupalgarh is larger in surface than is Jaugada. Sisupalgarh's defences are the highest known of this period in India. The ancient settlement probably was not dense, but rather there was room inside the fortress to graze. 
  Excavations from 2005 to 2009 by M.L. Smith and R. Mohanty, reached bedrock or natural soil in some areas of the settlement, dating the earliest occupation around 7th to 6th centuries BCE in five different locations sampled, being the earliest C14 dating inside the city 804-669 BCE and outside 793-555 BCE, and the northern rampart was dated to 510-400 BCE.
caption: Area D ruin, 2004 (FH Mainz).
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