An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c35.135

v2.c35.135

Houses are now made not only of mud brick but also of kiln-burnt brick (size 44·5 × 25·5 × 7 cm) and are oriented along the cardinal directions. A sense of town-planning is thus in evidence. There are covered street-drains for the discharge or sullage-water. A device for local soakage of water is noticed in which terracotta rings or jars are placed one over the other in a cylindrical pit. For draw-wells too terracotta rings have been used for lining [14.15]. Cylindrical barns of trapezoidal brick for the storage of cereals have been found. The economy on the whole had received a booster through enhanced agricultural production, in which profusion of iron tools may have played an important role. These include ploughshares, sickles, axes and adzes, besides arrow-heads, spearheads, nails, ferrules, etc. (Here evidence from other comparable sites has also been taken into account.) Both punch-marked and copper coins [3.1] testify to the developing economy, trade and commerce, the former being both of silver and copper, but the latter only of copper. The other finds of the Pd include: terracotta human and animal figurines: beads of semiprecious stones and glass; bangles and rings of copper; and the like. The Pd seems to have come to an end on account of a conflagration, traces of which have been noticed all over the site.