Mound F

The so-called circular working platform area and workmen's quarters are seen in the mid-ground. New excavations of a circular working platform was begun in 1998 and continues in 1999. Initial results suggest that the platforms were not used for proc… >

Also in a room encroaching onto the street were the upturned rim of a jar (on left) and two bases (center and right) that were used as hearths (Trench 41NE). The pottery base hearths could have been lifted and moved to different parts of the room th… >

Between Mound AB and Mound F are a number of mysterious circular platforms, originally inside houses and small courtyards. >

In 1998, the circular platform first exposed by Sir Mortimer Wheeler in 1946 was re-exposed and the area around the platform was expanded to reveal the presence of the room in which it was enclosed. The brick walls had been removed by brick robbers … >

Section drawing of the cut through the Mound F city wall and adjoining interior street, facing east (Trench 41NE). >

These platforms are often called workmen's platforms, and were first thought to have been used to thresh grain for what was also thought to have been the nearby "Great Granary." >

To the west of Wheeler's circular platform a new platform was discovered. This platform was excavated using modern stratigraphic procedures and detailed documentation. Charcoal, sediment, animal bone, charred plant and other botanical samples were c… >

Excavations in 1999 along the western of edge of Mound F (Trench 43) revealed fallen rubble from walls that had collapsed late in the Harappan occupation of this area of the site. Drummers standing on the piles of dirt left from earlier excavations … >

Close shot of re-constructed platform. The white is salt creeping up from the ground, a problem in many areas of the site. >

Plan view of the so-called "granary" or "parallel-wall structure" on Mound F at Harappa indicating areas of HARP excavations conducted in 1997 and 1999. Note that the structural remains surrounding the "granary" are, for the most part, later than th… >