An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c31.54

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The buff-and-cream ware which characterized Phase III was mainly a slow-wheel-made ceramic, fast-wheelturned examples being only occasionally met with. Of medium fabric the clay used in the preparation of this pottery contained vegetable matter, indicated by the presence of air-holes in the core which showed a band of grey or ivory suggesting that the ware was underfired. It was treated on the outside with thin slip, flaked off at places, and was painted in black with chiefly geometric designs, such as cross-hatched triangles, diamonds and squares, horizontal bands, groups of many lines, comblike design, circles and animal motifs with stippled body. A couple of fragments of graduated terracotta rings used perhaps as measuring devices represented the important finds from this phase. Evidence of symbolic as well as partial burial systems was also met with in this phase.