(With photos) Kanpur: Three ancient swords with a weight of 20 kg each, found during the leveling of agricultural fields in a remote village located on the banks of the Sai River in Unnao Regency on Wednesday.
Leveling work is taking place in Chichhauli Village near the banks of the Sai River for the past few days.
Then, the news became viral on social media.
This forced the district government to record the incident.
“A team for verification will visit the village on Thursday,” said a senior district official.
Indra Bahadur Singh and Ramnarayan Singh, the villagers of Chichhauli, sold their seven lands to Anirudh Verma, an employee in the Irrigation Department, residents of Dubagga, Lucknow, six months ago.
Leveling work has been going on in fields since the last few days.
On Wednesday, workers with the help of a land leveling tractor when they found three ancient swords.
The workers became threatened and gave a sword to the supervisor, who then maintained weapons in four-wheeled vehicles and left the place.
But the news spread after viral on social media.
HR Purwa Rajendra Prasad said, “I tried to gather information in this matter, but failed to get any instructions.
We have formed a team that will visit the village on Thursday.
There is a need for excavation right on the site.” Sword covered with mudflow Arrupt to social media groups has forced the villagers to connect weapons of war with a rebellion in 1857.
But, it is more speculation and iron weapons need to be authenticated by historians and archaeologists.