Early India and Pakistan to Ashoka c9.33

c9.33

Secondly, the tools and weapons normally included in all these categories of burial are of iron, ranging from axes, knives, bill-hooks, hoes, wedges and horses' bits to all-metal spears more than six feet in length. Bronze is used for bangles, rings and other non-utile objects, and also for bowls; gold beads occur occasionally; but a liberal and developed iron industry is the outstanding feature.