Stone plates
- British colonial
An 1825 British survey lists stone plates among the goods taxed when they left Cuttack, alongside sal timber and other forest goods. The survey does not say what kind of stone they were carved from.
Stone plates were taxed on their way out of Cuttack, right alongside sal timber.
An 1825 British survey lists stone plates among the goods taxed on leaving Cuttack. They travelled out alongside sal timber and other forest goods. The survey does not say what stone they were carved from. [Stirling, 1825, p. 194]
For scholars
Only one source documents this, so the tier stops at Probable. Stirling names “stone plates” but not the stone type, where it was quarried, or how the plates were used. Do not assume soapstone, or any one craft tradition, without another source. [Stirling, 1825, p. 194]
Facts
- Category
- Other
- Direction
- Exported from Kalinga
Scholar notes
Only one source documents this, so the tier stops at Probable. Stirling names 'stone plates' but does not say what stone, where it was quarried, or what the plates were used for; do not assume soapstone or a specific craft tradition without a further source.
- Andrew Stirling. *An Account, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical, of Orissa Proper or Cuttack*. in Asiatic Researches 15. 1825. public domain , p. 194 (Exports liable to duty: 'Piece goods, bees wax, iron, kut'h..., oil, lac, stone plates, sal timber, congni wood, karbeli, shirbeli and petty articles.')