An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c45.783

v2.c45.783

Excavation conducted here by the ASI under B.B. Lal in 1948 (*AI*, 5, 1949, pp. 62-105) has revealed that the site was in occupation from the beginning of the 3rd century B.C. to the middle of the 4th century A.D. The Early Pd, *c.* 300 to 220 B.C., represents the settlement in its formative stage when the people used plain pottery from dull-grey to terracotta-red in colour. It is of interest to find a few pottery types, particularly fragments of pear-shaped vases in red ware which bear affinities with the corresponding types recovered from the Mauryan levels of various sites of n. India. No structural remains of the Pd have come to light.