Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c21.8

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From the excavation, the iron objects yielded were 126 in number, besides of 90 shapeless bits and slag pieces. These include nails, borers, staples, doorings, spear, arrowheads and chisels. Iron was conspicuous by its absence in the Periods I and II, but there were a couple of slag lumps found in the top layers of the latter period. A barbed and socketed arrowhead from the earliest level of the Period III indicates that iron metallurgy at Hastināpura started around the eighth to sixth century BC. There were a chisel from a late level of Period III, an adze from the level of Period IV etc.