An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c30.101

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**Chandigarh** (30°42′; 76°54′), capital of the Union Territory of that name, where in 1969 in the course of digging the foundations of a shopping complex in sector 17C the remains of a Harappa [4.9] cemetery were brought to light below 1 to 2 m thick deposit of alluvium. The Panjab Univ. conducted excavation in the area and a regular cemetery was discovered but the report is awaited. Next year, nearly 100 m to the e., Harappa pottery [11.3], stone querns, pestles [6.19] and a few other sundry objects came up along with the earth excavated for an underground structure. As it had been noticed at HARAPPA, ROPAR and KALIBANGAN—all Harappa sites—that the habitation area lies to the e. of the cemetery, seven trenches were laid here by the author and others of the ASI (*IAR 1970-1*, p. 39) in the expectation of the discovery of a Harappa settlement.