An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c46.421

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Pd I, c. 500 to 300 B C., had mud-brick houses with thatched roofs and terracotta tiles [14.6.4], lime-plastered floors, patches of rammed mud floors and five pits. The pottery including black-and-red ware, the NBPW, white-slipped ware, coarse red ware, beads, objects of iron, terracotta, stone and copper bull figurines, two Mauryan stone seals and two human skulls. In Pd II, c. 300 to 100 B.C., were found mud and baked-brick houses with roofs of terracotta tiles fixed on wooden beams with iron nails, ring-wells and soak-pits. In addition to the ceramics of the preceding Pd a fine and red ware was found along with punch-marked and cast coins [3.1] of copper, objects of soapstone, beads, bone points and storage jars. Pd III, 100 B C to A.D. 200, had a baked-brick (40×25×7·5 cm) apsidal platform, a brick wall, ring-wells, fire-pits, soak-pits, storage jars, post-holes on the floor and a charred wooden pole. The pottery mainly comprised a stamped ware bearing Buddhist symbols, kaolin ware and sprinklers in the Red Polished Ware. Also recovered were Tripuri coins, copper, lead and potin coins of Siri Sātakaṇi and Siri Sāta and of the Kṣatrapas, besides a few stone vessels, copper objects and ear-rings of jasper. Pd IV, A D 200 to 400, revealed structures of baked brick including a circular pavement and a structure meant for the manufacture of metal implements, such as socketed arrow and lanceheads, clay sealings, mica-dusted pottery, sprinklers, punch-marked coins, glass and shell beads, various small objects of iron, copper, terracotta and stone and a few clay sealings with symbols and legends reading Vāsiṣṭhīputra Mahārāja, Śivabodhi, Vasubodhi, Śrībodhi and Candrabodhi, the last four names indicating the existence of a Bodhi dynasty following the Sātavāhanas. Specially noteworthy was the discovery of an Indo-Sassanian coin and a gold Kalacuri coin, characterizing the late historical period, which also had baked-brick walls and a rammed floor with post-holes with other Kalachuri coins.