View of the ‘house’ and the ‘brick built grave’ at Pit II, in southern portion of Section of B, Mound AB.
Pit II provided rich finds, and Sahni noted:
“Pit II revealed at the depth of 3 ½’ a copper pot (P. II 13, Plate XXVIl) which was tightly closed with a smaller copper vessel placed upside down upon it. The jars are similar to those containing jewellery deposits found at Mohenjo-daro, hut the contents here were disappointing inasmuch as they consisted of broken copper dishes, common earth and two or three teeth of a wild beast. Another object of note which was found 1 ½’ below the copper vessel is a red stone ring (P. II, 20, Plate XXVII, h), plain at the base but having four projections at the top and a round hollow cut into- it on one side which might have served the same purpose as the ring stones referred to above, or have been a finial or the crown of an image. No structural remains were met with in this trench until the excavation reached the depth of 12', where a portion of a solidly built house was brought to light. One complete room in this structure has internal dimensions of 15' x 5’10" and is provided with one door on the south and presumably two on the north side. The room adjoining the one just described is also provided with doors on either side and contained a large number of bones and other objects. In the southeast corner of this trench was found a brick built grave of the same type as those brought to light in mound F, with this difference that here there was a layer of sand spread under the floor of the structure. The trench also revealed a large collection of earthen and faience bangles and other large-sized funerary urns.”
- Daya Ram Sahni ARASI 1924-25, p. 80.
Vats noted the house as number 5 in the IVth stratum in Pit II which he described as “all but perished”:
“In the southern part of the Eastern Section, in squares Q 24/14, 19, and 24, were discovered in the original Pit II the fragmentary remains of House 5 of the lVth stratum. The house has all but perished; at present it measures 27 ft. 7 in. from west to east by 19 ft. 6 in. from north to south, and appears to have consisted of four rooms, i.e., two in front towards the south, and two, at the back entered from the front. The south-eastern room has a doorway opening 4 ft. 2 in. wide; the other doorways have disappeared. The width of the front rooms is 5 ft. 10 in., and of the back ones 7 ft. 6 in., the length of the largest room being 15 ft. 2 in. In this house was found a small, bossed faience sealing (No. PII-86, 9/16 in. sq.) relieved with two rows of rectilinear patterns.”
- Vats, M.S. Vol. 1, 1940, p. 162.