Copper in Ancient India c7.s1.6

c7.s1.6

The copper implements were packed in regular layers with the silver objects lying in mass on one side. They appear to have never been put to use. It has been surmised that the place marks the site of a treasure house in which these articles were kept for safety. It is more likely, however, that there was a depot at that place in which these goods were stored for sale. Mr. Vincent A. Smith contends that this large collection of copper implements "affords conclusive evidence that at one time the manufacture of implements of pure copper was conducted in India on an extensive scale. It is impossible that more than four hundred such implements should have been collected in a single deposit unless they were of a kind in common ordinary use."