Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c11.s5.7

v1.c11.s5.7

In this connection mention may be made about the G section of DK area, where excavation has revealed few houses which according to the excavator are interesting. The partially preserved block IA with its two very fine stairways and the small amount of copper and bronze unearthed in this block, lay well to the west of the main building. This provides no indication as to the use of what must have been an almost palatial structure. Mackay is of the opinion that the number of copper melts in House VI of Block 2 perhaps indicates that at least a part of this building was devoted to metallurgical work. That metal was sometimes smelted at Mohenjo-Daro seems however proved by the find of copper ore together with a small piece of lead in a brick-lined pit in the middle of room 51 of House VI, adjacent to the palace. The presence of the piece of lead is particularly interesting as it may have been used to assist in smelting the copper ore. (MCK, 41)