The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c12.25

c12.25

A bronze or copper pin with a double spiral head was found near the edge of the mound in a context which might be either late Harappan or Jhukar. It is of considerable though at present imponderable value as representing a type widespread in space and time, though its “pull” is towards the second millennium (see p. 88). Of the same general period is a bronze shaft-hole axe, which, in view of the extreme scarcity of socketed implements in the Indus valley, must be regarded as a foreign product from Mesopotamia or Iran (p. 89).