Excavations

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. The workman is standing next to a cro… >

"Four other trial trenches were dug in site F in places which appeared most favourable for examination. One of them to the west of the main trench disclosed at the depth of about 8 feet a well-reserved water reservoir lined with brick and provided w… >

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 Cun… >

"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. from north to south by 8… >

Trench A(b) is one of eastward trenches cut by Daya Ram Sahni in Mound F. "In order to trace some more walls of the two blocks of of the Great Granary Mr. Sahni made a few stray extensions about the centre of Trench A both towards the east and we… >

Mound A-B Trench B: General View from East-South East. This image was published in Vats' monograph as Pl XXX, d. "In the high western part [of mound A-B] (PI. XXX, d, left back-ground) in square P 18/4, Stratum I. R… >

"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 S… >

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… >

A view of the fragmentary Harappa Phase building foundations located to the west of the Baba Noor Shah tomb. - Jonathan Mark Kenoyer, 2023. >

View of Pit I, Mound AB. Sahni: ‘The only structures reclaimed in pit I were two cells occurring at the depth of 3’ and 10’ respectively, which might have been kitchens or baths, and a well preserved drain composed of brick with a gabled roof …” … >