An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s9.6
An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v1.c19.s9.6
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Mostly of mud, historical fortifications have in some cases partial or full revetment of baked brick, but at ŚIŚUPĀLGARH it is of laterite blocks. However ancient PĀṬALIPUTRA had a fortification made of heavy tenoned wooden posts with nailed cross-beams. Bastions attached to the earlier fort-walls were quadrangular (one at Sirkap, Taxila, being pentagonal) but those of the later times, especially of medieval period, were circular. Traces of semicircular bastions are noticed at a corner of the inner fortification of the Kushan period at MATHURĀ.