Prehistoric India to 1000 B.C. c12.89

c12.89

While the buildings at Mohenjo-daro which can reasonably be considered as houses or shops, or which combined both functions, showed variations in size which no doubt corresponded to the respective status and wealth of their occupants, their general plan was much the same. Building in the better-class houses was invariably carried out in well-fired bricks, normally 11 by 5.5 by 2.5 inches, though there are variants, and walls were always built solid, not with a faced rubble core. There seems to have been wide use of mud-plastering inside the houses, and probably normally outside as well, though one or two instances of more or less decorative bricklaying rather suggest that these particular walls were left unplastered. The usual method of laying was the ‘English bond’ of alternate courses of headers and stretchers.