Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.84

c12.84

Below the citadel in each city lay the remainder of the streets, shops, and dwelling-houses of the main population. Erosion has played havoc with the outer edges of the mounds that now mark these buildings, and traces of city walls, other than those of the citadels themselves, have not so far been identified with confidence, though at Mohenjo-daro part of a wall, with a flight of steps probably going down to the river outside, has been found and claimed as a possible town wall. At this site too the better-preserved buildings, hardly touched by brick-robbing, have enabled a considerable amount of the street-plan and the plans of individual houses to be recovered (Fig. 21).