Sakradih
| Location | Lat 250 29’ 50”N, Long 830 46’ 05”E |
| District | Ghazipur |
| State | U.P. |
| Excavation Years | 2009-2010 |
| Director of Excavations | B.R. Mani |
| Assisted by | S.K.Manjul, I.D.Dwivedi, Arvin Manjul, S.Nayan, J.K.Tiwari, Ashish Kumar & Neetesh Saxena. |
Sakradih is located along the right bank of river Ganga hardly 1.5kms. south-west to its marked meander near Gahamar, district Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh. Ancient remains of the site are spread in an area of approx 700 500 mts. with an average height of 5 to 6 metres from surrounding ground level.
A small scale excavation has been taken to ascertain the culture sequence of the mound as well as to know the archaeological potentiality of the site/ area.
On the basis of potteries and antiquities recovered from the excavation entire occupational deposit of the mound is tentatively divisible into 6 cultural periods as follow:-
| Period I | Chalcolithic Culture |
| Period II | Pre-Northern Black Polished Ware Culture |
| Period III | Northern Black Polished Ware |
| Perid IV | Sunga-Kushana |
| Period V | Gupta |
| Period VI | Early Medieval |
Antiquities includes glass bangle both plain and spotted verity, terracotta bird figurine, iron spout, terracotta beads, glass bead, copper ring, glass earlobe, crucible etc. are found. The most noteworthy antiquity are two miniature sculptures made of sand stone found from the upper level of this period.
