Fantastic stone patterns of Warangal fort. India

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

Warangal is a city in the Indian state of Telangana. The place is known for many architectural monuments of the 12-14 centuries. Here are the remains of the Warangal fortress. Yes, there are enough stone ruins here. But as always, interesting facts from this place are hidden in the details of the skillfully worked rocks.

At one time, someone shared a link to details in the structures of Warangal. I propose to look at them and draw conclusions, as far as possible from the photographs.

Why this place was called a fort (fortress, fortification) is not clear. A fortification does not need such elaborate patterns, geometric ornaments, square holes, etc. Usually historians call such places temples. On google maps, this particular place is called Warangal Park. And the fortified walls have a much larger perimeter:

It is impossible to show all the interesting details within the framework of one article, I will give only the brightest ones: in the columns, fragments of various elements, etc.

Questions immediately arise: why were the internal cuts in the stone columns and their segments needed? And how could they be done so skillfully?

How can you cut holes with right angles inside? And what about the negative (internal) angles in this ornament for the knot? The column also has internal rock cuts, which cannot be made with a simple chisel and hammer.

These products are similar to blanks in varying degrees of readiness. Somewhere there is an ornament, somewhere it is partially present. Those. it turns out that this place was also the place where the elements were made. Is the building unfinished? Why did everyone leave?

A short video from an Indian researcher of antiquities:

This site has stone floors with iron ties connecting the slabs. Those. there was also metallurgy.

An excellently crafted ornament (left) and a fragment of what appears to be some kind of stone bath. The destruction of such huge items is a separate question. It is necessary to try to break the product in such a way. And before that - raise, overturn. No core traces are visible. Of course, it can be assumed that the destruction appeared due to the explosion of gunpowder during its existence.

Round elements in rectangular stones. How was it handled? Even now, with our tools, this is a difficult task.

In addition to fantastically processed stone elements, in this place is the masonry of a part of some structure:

When I looked at the originals of the photographs, I could see that the seam between the blocks has no gaps. Either the blocks are precision crafted, or they are standardized blocks cast in precision formwork using a synthetic sandstone recipe.

What rocks are all these stone elements made of in Warangal? Someone says that it is black basalt and granite. But I looked at the photos in high resolution, where their structure is visible. It doesn't look like granite. And they look like sandstone. Black and red. Of course, skeptics will again say that I am guessing once again from photographs.

What if the ancients knew how to make artificial sandstone products? And this place is a workshop, or even a factory for the manufacture of elements for the construction of many temples, as we now call them.

Nowadays, you can make artificial sandstone using this technology:

You will need: sand, clay, water glass and calcium chloride

If someone tries this technology, the recipe - let me know. In the summer, too, as time will be, I will try to experiment. If there is a positive result, I will make a separate article. The technology is simple.

If the ancients possessed such technology and understood the chemistry of the process, calcination of mixtures, then probably many stone products, structures that we see are moldings and castings. And also carving on masses that have not yet hardened completely.