Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c12.s5.5

v1.c12.s5.5

From the Mound AB, an appreciable quantity of charcoal was found from the burnt down read and bamboo huts of poor people. On careful study it has been established that sample (1) is the charcoal of a *Bambusa* as inferred from the nature of the closed and scattered vascular bundles seen in the cross-section and the hollow internodes. Sample (2) is the charcoal of saccharum arundinaceum compared with a cross-section of the same from a herbarium specimen and found to agree. Sample (3) is the charcoal of a pine wood, confirmed by the presence of resin ducts in the numerous annular rings.