Excavations

Harappa Pit

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A view of a large trench with structures, of bricks. Sahni excavated four large pits in section B of Mound AB, which he described as: “Four large pits, each 50' square, were sunk simultaneously in a line in the southern portion of mound B, which has

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Pit where Lingam was Discovered

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A view of Trench A (i), Mound F, which Sahni excavated to the east of Trench A (f). Deep vertical cuttings mark the sides of the trench, showing the excavation of this area. A labourer is sitting close to some of the finds of structures, of bricks.

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Pit where lingam was discovered

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A view of excavations at Trench A (i), Mound F. Deep vertical cutting, mark the sides of the trench, and a labourer is shown, sitting close to the finds of structures, of bricks For a description of the excavations and the finds, including of, the

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Another Excavation Pit

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View of the area, of the pits in AB, before deep digging. Traces of structures of bricks and possibly of the gabled drain.

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Harappa Mound AB Perpendicular Cutting

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"A second trench was started in the western portion of this mound, but I was so completely bewildered by the enormous accumulations of earth that had to be cleared away that it appeared futile to continue it at the present stage." At this point Sahni

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Mound AB Naugaza Mound

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"In the northern portion of this mound, Rai Bahadur Daya Ram Sahni excavated a considerable area (B) in the years 1920-21, 1923-24 and 1924-25. He began by sinking a trial trench 55 ft. long by 20 ft.

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Harappa Trench B from East

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Trench B is the name given to a series of trenches dug in mound A-B over successive seasons by Dara Ram Sahni between 1921 and 1925. (See below for details in Vats' account) "The operations were then shifted to the mound marked A—B in General

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Harappa Trench B 1923-24

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"Due south of Mound F, and across the village road going west to the hamlet of Hafiz Bullah, stands Mound AB—the highest of all the mounds at Harappa (Pl. I). Roughly, it is a parallelogram in shape, measuring some 1,450 ft.

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Late Brick Wall and Granary

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Note that Trench Bf was subsumed by Trench B over subsequent seasons. "The operations were then shifted to the mound marked A—B in General Cunningham's plan, on the east side of which some trial diggings had been carried out in the year 1920-21...In

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Trench B Excavations Showing Overlapping Walls

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The section above the wall shows the remains of a deep pit left by the brick robbers. Often when the digging got too deep, they just abandoned the removal of bricks and left the lowest levels of the wall intact.

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