An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s15.6
An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s15.6
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In contrast to Mohenjo-daro, the number of wells at KALIBANGAN is very small. They have been located in both the Citadel and the Lower City where there is often a well in the courtyard of a house. One of the wells which, according to excavators, is ‘associated with a fire altar . . . showed novel structural features: in the foundation, the ring-wall of the well constructed of wedgeshaped baked bricks, was found to be supported on four sides by (normal type) radial walls of single-brick course' (*IAR 1966-7*, p. 32). However from the published photograph (*ibid.*, pl. XXIII) it appears that the radial walls are not of 'single-brick course' but of single-brick thickness.