An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c36.24

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The houses are built carefully with well-laid floors, which were periodically repaired and frequently plastered with mud and lime. One of the houses has a channel dug outside in the courtyard for draining out rain-water from the roof. The houses in the c. part of the principal habitation area, INM I, are in a better state of preservation. Here usually there is at least one set of four flat stones, probably for supporting a four-legged storage jar. In utter contrast to this, the houses in the w. part of INM I have pit silos dug into the house floor; their average diameter is 1 m and depth 1 m. The silos have straight sides and flat bottom plastered with lime. The evidence shows that they were the houses of artisans such as the potter, the coppersmith and so on.