An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c47.63

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Pd I, dated *c*, 750 to 500 B.C., is represented by 1·9m thick strata characterized by pottery comprising the coarse and gritty black-and-red ware [11.6], a bright-red ware having a secondary black slip in discontinuous patches and called the double-slipped ware, unslipped Vesiculated Ware [11.17] and a few sherds of the PGW [11.14] represented only by two sherds in the stratified deposits and a few in the make-up of the ramparts, spindle whorls [6.25] of terracotta, styli [20.5] of bone, arrowheads, spearheads, crowbars, spades, choppers, knives and presumably saws of iron, besides arrowheads of bone. The objects of iron represent fairly early stages in the manufacture of iron objects in India, which may go back to about 1000-1000 B.C. elsewhere.