Minerals and Metals in Ancient India v1.c26.s6.5

v1.c26.s6.5

On the third day of the excavation (December 1983), one of the Baroda team (Hegde) spotted the corner of a refractory plate sticking out from a heap of spent retorts beside a goat track in a valley on Zawar Mala . . . . . . . With mounting excitement we cleared a small area above and around it to reveal first, the edges of furnace walls, and then the tops of retorts still in situ.