Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c8.42

c8.42

The occupational strata of Period II had reached a height of 6-7 feet when a flood swept across the site and, for a time occupation ceased. When habitation was renewed (Period III) the Painted Grey Ware had given place to the Northern Black Polished Ware, ascribed above (p. 30) to the 5th-2nd century B.C., and baked bricks were now used alongside mud and mud-brick. Again, no details of house-plans were revealed in the trial-trenches, but baked-brick drains were encountered, and 'soak-wells' or 'soak-pits' of superimposed jars with perforated bases or of superimposed terracotta rings about 2 feet in diameter now begin to appear. Soak-pits and ring-wells of these types are characteristic of Indian towns from the latter half of the 1st millennium B.C. onwards.