Page 271 - Lohgarh

Lohgarh Bastion at Village Masoompur,
Near Raipur Rani

This citadel is located on hillock at a
peak of 1200 feet above sea level in the
revenue state of village Masoompur
(30°34'27.98"N, 77° 5'5.83"E). It is a
wonderful building for defense
purposes and from the remnants it can
be easily assessed that the intensive
concrete was applied in the structure
of the edifice. This bas on has double
for fica on of walls which are 2 to 3
meters in width. Stones have been
dressed to the size and shape by chisel
on all the beds so that joints are free
from any waviness and give perfect
ver cal, horizontal, circular, joints with
adjoining stones. The face of stones
gauged, cut, chamfered, grooved,
rebated sunk plain moulded and fine
tooled as shown in the working design
and pictures. The joints are finely
tooled so that the straight edge laid
along it is in touch with every level. The
structure is made of concrete, lime,
boulders and bricks. It is strong hold
building as it was in the vanguard of
the fort, facing the Mughal onslaught.
It is a goodful example of joint use of
stone and bricks along with lime
mortar having a good ra o of lime,
surkhi (powdered bricks) and sand.

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