Circular Hearth in eastern portion of trench A (f) from S.E.
There is no mention of a circular granary from trench A(f), Mound F, in ARASI 1924-25. However, Sahni noted “two little circular structures paved in brick on a thick substratum of hard burnt nodules of brick’. He reported that “The structures are blackened with soot but it is difficult to say definitely whether they are hearths or chimneys of some kind” and that it is “noteworthy that no handmills for grinding corn were found anywhere on the site.” (Daya Ram Sahni ARASI 1924-25, p. 77).
Sahni’s excavations of Trench A (f) is noted in Vats 1940, p. 50. Vats declared it “highly improbable that cremation platforms or funeral pyres would have been made in the midst of dwelling houses all over the site” (Vats 1940, Vol. I, p. 50).
Notably, Sahni recorded the finds of a circular brick granary in Mound AB:
“A large trench excavated in mound B (Plate XXV, a) behind the Naugaza tomb during my operations of 1920-21 and 1923-24 had revealed fragments of solidly built structures. The past year’s excavations show that the upper portion of this mound was re-occupied in later times, i.e., in the early centuries of the Christian era. … Three feet lower down I found another structure. … To the same late period I am now disposed to assign the circular brick granary which had been brought to light in this area at a depth of about 14' below the summit of the mound in 1923-24. Had it belonged to the Indo-Sumerian period it would certainly have been more systematically constructed and in all probability with wedge-shaped bricks” (Daya Ram Sahni ARASI 1924-25, p. 78).
Of the above granary Vats recorded this to be from “Stratum II-- the latest remains of the Indus period” in Mound AB:
“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 (ht. 6 ft., diam, 4 ft. 2 in.) made of bricks laid stretcherwise (PL XXX, d, along the right edge and PL XXIX, plan and section), 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 1940, Vol. I, p. 138).
Note: There is an object label on the corner brick: with the words T and A, rest illegible.
Note the shoe prints near the structure.