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The beads recovered at Taxila number over 8500, a quarter of the number from the Bhir Mound, 65 p.c. from Sirkap and the rest from Dharmarajika and other sites (Marshall, 1951, 1975). A stratigraphical table of beads from Sirkap, Taxila is provided in Table 3. The inhabitants of the Bhir Mound area preferred agate, carnelian, shell, bone and glass - blue and green. In the later- day Sirkap inhabitation, we find continued uses of agate and carnelian and considerable uses of shell, glass, faience, quartz crystal, garnet, malachite etc. (vide Table 3).