 Lauriya has 15 Stupa mounds in three rows, each row upwards of 600 m; the first row begins near the pillar and goes E to W, while the other two are at right angles to it and parallel to each other.Alexander Cunningham partially excavated one of them in 1862 and found a retaining wall of brick (size 51 X 20 cm).A few years later Henry Bailey Wade Garrick excavated several mounds with indifferent results.