Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.104

c12.104

There are a couple of fortified sites known. Ali Murad in Sind is surrounded by a stone wall 3 to 5 feet thick, which encloses an irregularly rectangular area, within which were houses and at least one well - such slight village fortification must have been the normal provision for safety from robbers and cattle-raiders. At Sutkagen-dor in the Makran, however, there was a more massive fortification, and a rectangular area 125 by 170 yards was enclosed by a stone wall, built of roughly-squared stone blocks in courses, 30 feet wide at the foot and with a vertical inner face, and the outer face battered at an angle of 40 degrees. Stein considered its probable original height to have been from 20 to 25 feet, and the whole site is clearly a very strongly defended citadel. There were traces of an entrance only 8 feet wide, with probable flanking towers or guard-houses, in the south-west corner, and there had been buildings both inside and outside this gateway.