Defence Architecture in Early North Karnataka c8.8

c8.8

Referring to the city wall in ruins, at Mohenjō-Dārō Excavations, Sir John Marshall (1931, pp.98-110) the Excavator observes that, "the ancient city therefore must have been,once, extended well beyond their existing limits. This being so,it follows that, if the city walls ever stood on grounds higher than the present level of plains, they must inevitably have perished". Mr.Mackay E.J.H. (1976; p.3) has suggested that "the city may not have been provided with walls, at all, but personally I see no sufficient reason at present for this supposition, nor on the other hand do I think that the walls of the later cities have necessarily been destroyed. But however, this may be, it is clear that any fortifications it may have been possessed would have stood not on the rising ground in the heart of the city, but on the then level of the plain, which appears to have been some 25 to 30 feet below its presont level, and this being so, it is by no means improbable the remains of them may be found beneath the deep alluvium."