[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.c40.78 # An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.78 An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c40.78 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c40.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.78) 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 - [Previous: v2.c40.77](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.77) - [Next: v2.c40.79](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.79) - [Up: v2.c40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.78](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.ghosh-1989.v2.c40.78) · Pramāṇa