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Gomsi

heritage site · Arunachal Pradesh

State
Arunachal Pradesh
Type
Heritage Site

Fifteen kilometres southwest of Pasighat, at Rani Village, about 11.5 acres of ground hold a fortified settlement: a central habitation complex ringed by an outer zone of twenty small earthen mounds, with a man-made pond, a pukhuri, built as part of it. A brick foundation with stairs here looks very like the one at Bhismaknagar, and a second brick plinth like Rukmininagar's, which is how the site got attached to the Chutia kingdom. Dating runs between the 13th and 15th centuries depending on whom you read. Archaeologists think it worked as an administrative or military camp watching trade rather than as a capital.

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Chutia fortified siteTwenty earthen moundsAncient pukhuri pondNear Pasighat

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