A team of archaeologists claimed to have discovered a unique Iron Age megalithic site at Ooragutta near Bandala village in SS Tadvai mandal of Mulugu district, Telangana. The site was discovered by a team comprising K.P. Rao, history professor of the University of Hyderabad, and Ch Praveen Raju, research scholar from Yogi Vemana University, Kadapa, Andhra Pradesh, in the forested area of the tribal-dominated district.

• This site has new types of monuments, which have not come to light so far anywhere in other regions of India. 
• Usually in this region, a type of megalithic monument known as ‘Dolmenoid Cists’ is found. 
• Most of the monuments in this region have squarish or rectangular shapes.