[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989) › v2.c35.135 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c35.135 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c35.135 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c35.135](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.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. - [Previous: v2.c35.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c35.134) - [Next: v2.c35.136](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c35.136) - [Up: v2.c35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c35) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c35.135](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c35.135) · Pramāṇa