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Annual Report of the Director-General of Archæology in India. 1919-20

1920

The works achieved comprised among other items the rebuilding of the walls of the great tank whee they had collapsed through inundation and the ensuing susidence of the adjacent ground ; the rebuilding of the greater part of one of the corner baradaris : minor repairs to the central pavilion in the tank and its 13 2 Punjab (Muhammadan and British Monuments)."causeway approach ; and the repair [...] In the case of the first two monuments the repairs were necessitated by the damage caused by the earthquake and cyclone of 1918 while in the case of he others the conservation work aimed at making good defective m; 1 sonry ju gle clearance and the provision of iron doorways and notice-boards11 in the compound. [...] At Bilhari the measures carried out consisted in cementing the roof of the porch re-erecting and strengthening the old columns of the same closing the openings on the north and south of the shrine with wire netting replacing missing stones in the platform south-east of the porch erecting a wire-fencing round the platform and collecting inside it the images previously lying scattered about as [...] The main items of of the building of neat props of ashlar masonry in place of s ; the insertion of masonry blocks in side walls which had by the constant accumulation of rain water ; the entire it and debris and the thorough drainage of the caves. [...] most important which have been underpinning an the clearance of buildings the dr of new muram in the Dominic) conservation of repair consisted the original pilla been undermin removal of the a result of thes measurements of the series and almost of unifo cells five exoav The cells mess rectangular sea of coloured pl decoration co of the cells.
anthropology archaeology
Pages
93
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100130
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Annual Report of the Director-General of Archæology in India 1919-20
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