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City professor takes up research on missing 'protected' pre-historic megaliths in VidarbhaDr Prabash Sahu A pre-historic stone circle at one of the sites in Nagpur District. By Shirish Borkar :SEVERAL Megalithic burial sites popularly known as stone circles in Vidarbha declared protected by Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) have now disappeared. “If this could happen to the protected sites what about those which are neither protected by the Central Government nor by the State?” questioned the CAG in his report No 18 of 2013. These megalithic monuments mostly hundreds of stone circles in Vidarbha were constructed either as burial sites or commemorative (non-sepulchral) memorials during prehistoric times. The megalithic monuments containing an urn or the sarcophagus bearing the mortal remains were usually made of terracotta..