An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.78

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Pd III, ascribed to 500-200 B.C. is characterized by the NBPW and associated wares and has produced a rich repertoire of iron objects, such as knives including a curved one, chisels, sickles with curved blades, arrowheads of square, rectangular and hexagonal cross-sections, occasionally tanged, double-edge daggers, hoes, chisels, nails and bowls. Terracotta skin-rubbers [18.4], polished stone discs, ivory pendants and hairpins, bone styli [20.5], copper antimony rods [18.1], rings and bangles, toys like leopard on wheels, pestles and mortars [6.19], etc. constitute the other finds of the Pd. An inscribed potsherd and terracotta ball would fix the terminal date of the site as the 2nd century B.C. Benerjee, N.R., 1965, *Iron Age in India*, Delhi (where the periodization is different from that given in the initial report in *IAR 1955-6*).—A. BANERJI