Date of visit: 08/082020
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31°55'10.48"N, 74°32'14.55"E
There are series of villages and small towns in Punjab which are constructed on existing old mounds. While traveling on Kala Hatai-Narang Mandi Road, one can see series of ancient mounds. Among these, the tallest one is standing near Narang Mandi near a small village of Alipur Syedan. The site of this mound is located 7 kilometers in the west of River Ravi. The rough diameter of this mound is 335 meters. On top of this mound a tomb and graveyard present. But one can still see debris and pottery items spread over the surface. A few decades back the area of this mound spread over more than two kilometers. Now, most of the ground of this mound flattened and converted into fields for agriculture use.
One more interesting thing about the location of this mound is that it lies in a place that falls under the Kingdom of Great Raja Rasalu (the younger brother of the famous historical character Pooran Bhagat) two Millenium back. But still, archaeological excavations needed to be done to investigate from which period this site has belonged.
Few historians believe that this site is one of the Ambh Kappi metropolises. But this theory is wrong as the location of Ambh Kappi is 60 kilometers south of this site.
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