Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c11.s4.7

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Not only Marshall, even Mackay also found a good number of finished and unfinished beads in the DK and HR areas in course of his excavation between 1927-31. Beads of the areas were similar with those found in the earlier sites. The material objects were same, such as steatite, faience, pottery, shell, agate, carnelian, jade, breccia, quartz, limestone, jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise, green feldspar, haematite, onyx, hornblende, gold, silver and copper. Besides the above-mentioned beads, there were few composite beads, made of red carnelian and white or blue chalcedony or agate. (MCK, 503)