Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c11.34

c11.34

Owing to the extremely limited excavations which have taken place and the absence of any detailed field surveys of the remains which are briefly recorded as visible on the surface of certain sites, our knowledge of the lay-out of the settlements is extremely meagre. The published plan of Nundara suggests blocks of buildings comforming to a common orientation at least in the south-east part of the site, and in the most interesting hill fortress of Kohtras Buthi, already mentioned, Majumdar describes the surface indications of ‘the outlines of countless rooms, both large and small, grouping themselves into blocks separated from one another by alleys’ inside the cyclopean defensive wall, but apparently separated from it by an open space. This wall of large, roughly-coursed blocks has at least four exterior bastions and the remains of an entrance, while the ruins of a slighter outer defence wall lie about 100 feet away. The published plan is, however, very inadequate.