The Centre on Wednesday informed the Parliament its much-hyped search for treasure of gold in Unnao in Uttar Pradesh yielded just glass bangles, iron nails and bones. The excavation had followed claims by a seer that he had a dream about 1,000 tonnes of gold buried in the ruins of the fort of Raja Rao Ram Bux Singh in Unnao’s Daundia Kheda village.
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.