An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c31.671

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*Pd I* (1st-2nd century B.C.). This Pd is represented by a layer of sea sand 5 m thick. The pottery is mostly fragmentary, its surface affected by salty sand and its edges rounded off by rolling in water. Nevertheless some rim fragments and body portions of pots give an idea of their shapes. The red ware is the major ware (95%), the black ware being insignificant. The red ware contains slipped, burnished, coarse and painted specimens. The black ware has coarse, slipped and burnished surfaces. The shapes in both the wares are the globular basin, pot-on-stand and bowl. Terracotta areca-nut-shaped beads, stoppers and shell bangles are the other finds. No structural remains have been found.