The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c10.29

c10.29

Of the buildings, which in varying form stood upon the enclosed platform and gradually raised it with accumulating brickwork, flooring and debris, no intelligible fragment is recorded. The excavated areas show that the area was thickly built over, but the plundered remains baffled the excavators. A long covered baked-brick drain proceeded eastwards near the centre of the eastern side; towards the southern end was a double-ringed well, and a long line of forty urns, buried in a row alongside a building but of unknown purpose. For the rest, the published scraps of walling, allotted to six "strata", make no sense, and we are left to infer some of the vanished features from the analogy of Mohenjo-daro.