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An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c39.729

An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c39.729

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v2.c39.729

Among toys mention may be made of the terracotta cart wheels, wheeled animals, discs with nail marks and clay balls. A quartzite hammer-stone, saddle querns and pestles, discoid balls, perhaps used as weights, cubical chert and cuboid sandstone weights [6.29], chert blades and ring stone comprise the stone artefacts. A bone or ivory stylus or pin, a ring and a square wire of copper and terracotta triangular cakes [6.27], discs with tapering sides and sling balls have also been recovered.