Published in ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXV (c). Title: ‘Mound B, Brick Platform with Cinerary Jar Placed Upon it Mouth Downwards’.
The jar is recorded as “earthen urn (B. 1486).”
All the remains laid below this level [mound B, Kushan or early Gupta level] are clearly assignable to the Indo-Sumerian period and the first monument of this kind was a square brock platform with a large earthen jar (B. 1486) resting upon it mouth downwards (Plate XXV, c). It was filled with ashes and charcoal, from which all bones had been extracted.”
- Daya Ram Sahni, ARASI 1924-25, Plate XXV (c). Title: ‘Mound B, Brick Platform with Cinerary Jar Placed Upon it Mouth Downwards’, p. 74-5.
Vats: “The IInd stratum was found at a depth of 4 to 6 ft.below the Gupta remains and is confined to the raised central part of the mound. To the north, in square P 18/1 along the edge of the excavation, was a circular granary … and at the centre, about 40 ft. south of this, a rough square brick platform, on which was found, lying upside down, a large crushed earthenware bowl filled with ashes and charcoal.”
- Vats, M.S. 1940, Vol. I, p. 138
About Sahni’s methods of measuring the depth of the finds in his excavations at Mound B, Vats noted: “In the northern portion of this mound [AB], 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, wide, a little to the west of and parallel to the tomb of Naugaza. This trench was extended to a length of over 100 ft., and later on, at right angles ot it, he sunk two subsidiary trenches towards the west, which cut across the highest portion of the mound …”
“ … To avoid confusion on the part of the reader, a word must be said here in regard to the method of recording followed during the time of the Rai Bahadur. It appears that the depth of the antiquities was then recorded sometimes from the highest point in the mound, that is to say from 590 ft. above the sea-level, and at others from the surface of the ground at the point where the find was made, which as already mentioned might be as much as 21 ft. lower.”
- Vats, M.S. 1940, Vol. I, p. 137.