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Bimson, an expert of the British Museum, has also explained the technology of the ceramic. In his option, cited by sir Mortimer Wheeler, “The unfired pots were dipped in a suspension of ferruginous inorganic material, probably resembling red earth and that after firing to a temperature of 800° the kiln was sealed so that the pots cooled in a reducing atmosphere. The mineralogical identity of the “red earth” has not been discovered and the main problem, namely the precise nature of the surface layer, still remained unsolved (Wheeler, 1959, p. 30).