View of six parallel walls, of the “stouter kind”.
Sahni: “The most important architectural discovery … of the year was made about the centre of this mound which, though only partially, exposed, already embraces an area of 106' from east to west by 122' from north to south. … I was led to the examination of this portion of the site by the existence of two solidly built walls running parallel to each other without any party walls ... With these walls as a starting point … the operations continued to reveal, in quick succession at narrow intervals, wall after wall, until I had a series of 14 of them, all running parallel to each other and of the same length namely 51 '9". All of them terminated on the west on an open corridor 24 feet wide beyond which stretched a similar set, of walls in precise correlation with those in the opposite series. So far only six of the walls have been found on the west, but there seems no doubt that when the excavation is continued each of the walls in the eastern row will be found to have its counterpart on the other side. These walls exhibit two distinct types, namely, a stouter kind and a thinner type. The former type is 9’ in width in the lower portion which is composed of clean indurated clay obtained from the bed of the river and secured on all sides with retaining walls of burnt brick. The upper portion is built solidly of burnt bricks, the total extant height of the wall being eight feet; … It is curious that the walls of the thicker type are ranged approximately at equal distances from each other, the intervals between them being 17 to 18 feet and had it not been for the thin walls, which intervene between them, it might have been thought that they enclosed a series of spacious rooms.”
- Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924-25, p. 76.