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The third important group of copper-using cultures is the Copper Hoards culture, and there is some circumstantial evidence to associate it with the Ochre-Coloured Pottery (OCP). At Saipai the OCP sherds included those giving off ocherous colour on rubbing, those with intact red slip and some with black, painted designs or incised decoration. The site also yielded rubbers, querns, a chert and a chalcedony blade, a burnt brickbat, chunks of burnt clay with reed impressions, bones of *Bos Indicus*, a copper harpoon, and a hooked spearhead (Lal 1972).