The Indus Civilization (Cambridge History of India, Supplementary Volume) c13.10

c13.10

Lastly, by reason of its situation, its size and its archaeological potentiality, Dābarkot south of Loralai, on the edge of the northern Baluch hills 125 miles from the Indus, stands out amongst the unexcavated Harappan tells.² It is 113 ft. high, and has a basal diameter of about 1200 ft. It lies on an ancient trade-route from the Indus valley in the direction of Kandahār. But its potentiality lies largely in the fact that the Harappan occupation seems to occur at the top of this tall mound, so that a careful excavation of it in depth may be expected to reveal the local antecedents of the Indus civilization to an extent perhaps unparalleled elsewhere. Such a certainty may be regarded as compensation for the remoteness of the site and the consequent difficulties which will confront the excavator.