Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c8.7

c8.7

In the excavations at Amri (Khan,F.A. 1965, p.29), Koṭ-Dījī (1965, p.45) at the pre-harappan level, the habitations found to have been enclosed by thick high walls, similarly in the proto-historic Harappan sites, it is too well known, such as Harappā (Mate,M.S. 1970, pp.75-84), Mohenjō-Dārō, Kālībangan, the habitational sites (Lal,B.B. and Thapar,B.K., 1967, p.20) are divided into two areas: citadel and lower city, each is within a fortification wall built with mud bricks and being about 3 to 7 metres wide in thickness and on the exterior at regular intervals are rectangular salients.