Mithi Virdi
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The site Mithi Virdi is located about 30 km south east of Talaja, which is a taluka, head quarter. The village is lying on a raised plateau close to the seashore.  A small seasonal river merges with the sea on the western side of the village.  Archaeological site is located about a km western side of the village in an agriculture field.  The area is comprised of reddish soil with small quartz gravel signifying the flow of river channel from this area.
In the coarse of onshore exploration on the southern Saurashtra coast in the search of some potential site for further offshore exploration, an interesting site, locally known as Bhima Ka Khatiya (Cot of Bhima, an important character of the Mahabharata) near the village Mithi Virdi was discovered, where five grapnel type of stone anchors were noticed. The lower two holes of the grapnel anchors on either face of the section of stone block are similar to those found in the legs of the cot in any village in India. Being large in size, the local people associated these anchors with the cot of Bhima who is a giant personality of Mahabharata.  
Five anchors are lying in an agricultural land (ground nuts are the important crop of this field) about 1 km north of the seashore. Three anchors are lying together at a distance of 10 m and oriented in the east-west direction. One anchor is in a broken condition. The fourth anchor is laying partially buried north of the other three and oriented in the east west direction.
All the anchors are similar to each other in shape and sizes.  The anchors have rectangular cross-sections and trapezoidal longitudinal sections. These have sharp edges and chisel marks on them are clearly noticed. They have been cut from conglomeratic sedimentary grit rock, which is dark brown in colour and small gravel can be noticed. The anchors have only lower two rectangular holes and upper circular hole is absent in all the anchors. 

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