Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c15.s5.1

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While the earlier excavations had not yielded any iron object at Ahar, the 1961-62 excavations yielded seventynine objects of iron, including thirty-six iron slag samples. (Sankalia et al., 1969: 203) A wrongly published chart led Sahi (1979) to assert that the iron samples belonged to Ib and Ic phases and therefore could be dated as early as thirteenth century BC. However, this claim has been contested since the iron samples actually belong to the much later period II with NBP wares.