An Encyclopaedia of Indian Archaeology v2.c48.66

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The Garh area shows that it was under occupation from at least 500 B.C., as in the lowest layers black-and-red ware [11.6.4] is found with the NBPW [11.16]. The discovery of a few sherds of degenerate grey ware with painting associated with the mud rampart has no chronological significance. The earliest traces of structural remains belong to 350-150 B.C., corresponding roughly to the Maurya period, when the mud rampart was erected; in the Śuṅga period it was strengthened with courses of mud brick. Afterwards a massive rampart about 21 m in width at the base and 6·4 m in width at the extant top and about 4 m in extant height was made of rammed earth. Later in the pre-Gupta period a brick rampart, 2·4 m wide, was constructed with military barracks made of brick 37·2× 23·3× 5 cm in dimensions.