View of Pit I, Mound B, with the long, gabled roof drain. The area of Pit I is marked with a label in the photograph and two men positioned in two areas to show the salient features. One stands near the cell like structures, of bricks.
Sahni: “Four large pits, each 50’ square were sunk simultaneously in a line in the southern portion of mound B, which has an average elevation of 40’ above the surrounding plain. …The only structures reclaimed in pit I were two cells occurring at the depths of 3’ and 10’ respectively, which might have been kitchens or baths, and a well preserved drain composed of brick with a gabled roof which was exposed for a length of 43’ ….”
- Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924-25, p. 79.
Vats noted: ‘Daya Ram Sahni sank four pits in the southern part of Mound AB in 1924-25. Of these he ‘linked up Pits I and II in the year 1926- 27 by sinking between them a long, narrow trench, measuring 260 ft. from east to west and varying in width from 13 to 30 ft. The reason for extending this particular part of the excavation’ he reported ‘was that in Pit I a gable-roofed drain of Stratum IV, going from west to east, had already been brought to light by the Rai Bahadur’, and he ‘was anxious to follow up and ascertain what buildings it was connected with.’
- Vats, M.S. 1940, Vol. I, p. 145.