VS Area, Section A. Block I, House II: Room 23, showing brick floor with dyeing troughs
[Original 1931 caption] "House II. - Rooms 1 to 26, covering a rectangular area of 86 ft. 10 in. by 64 ft. 5 in.
Manufacturing related sites and debris from ancient Indus sites.
Unfinished shell bangles
Unfinished shell bangles in the shell workshop, Gola Dhoro.
Unfinished shell circlets with grinding stone
Unfinished shell circlets with grinding stone in the front.
Unfinished shell bangles
Complete raw shell Turbinella pyrum (right and left) and a pile of unfinished shell bangles (center).
Lower town of Lothal
The bead factories, situated where the 8th street of the commercial area and the 5th street of the residential area meet, comprised the main industry of the Harappans.
Dyer's Workshop, VS Area
This room in VS area was made with bricks set on edge to create a watertight floor. A small well was located in the southeast corner (top right) and circular brick depressions were set into the floor, presumably to hold pottery vessels.
Kot Diji phase kilns
Excavations in 1996 revealed two Period 2 small kilns for making figurines and bangles, as well as preserved floors with Kot Diji style pottery, beads, and figurines
Mound AB, Trench 39N bead debris
This plan shows concentrations of bead manufacturing debris on several superimposed Ravi phase floor levels that indicate the positions of actual work areas.
Ravi phase floors in section
After excavation, the section view of the Ravi phase floors with agate manufacturing debris was drawn and photographed, and block samples were taken for micromorphological study.
Jasper drill bits
Jasper drill bits were used for drilling carnelian and amazonite beads during the Ravi and subsequent phases at Harappa. On the left are two snapped drill tips while on the right is a broken drill base. All are from the Ravi phase.
