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Excavations at Sanci, Taxila and other places also have revealed further information regarding the character of pottery in India from about 500 B.C. to 100 B.C. The body of the potteries of these different sites consist of a finely levigated clay, usually grey but sometimes reddish in sections. This is covered with a brilliantly burnished slip having the quality of a glaze, with colours from jet black to grey, metallic steel blue occasionally varied with reddish brown patches.