Harappa: Mound ET Views

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Harappa: Mound ET Photos

Mound ET, also known as the `Police Station' Mound is the furthest east of the archaeological mounds at Harappa. Much of my work with the Harappa Archaeological Research Project was centered on this mound.

This mound was a `suburb' founded outside the original city wall, eventually being walled and incorporated into the city during the later urban phases. This mound is covered with craft manufacturing debris, detailing the large workshops [and likely bazaars] which occupied this area in the last Harappan urban phases.

At a later date, this mound housed a Sikh fort, and eventually a British-era Police Station whose ruins are seen below.

The ruins of the British Period police station, located on the center of Mound ET.

Tree and roots in edge of trench on Mound ET, 1995. This tree proved to be a nightmare for the excavators, who kept having to cut out sections of root. While above ground the tree didn't look like much, it had quite a root system.

Excavation of Trench 27 in 1995.

Inside the deep trench dug in 1995. This went from the ground surface to the sterile Indus flood plain below urban occupation. I had to draw some of the soil profile [section] at the bottom. While sitting down there, you could sense people above by an increase in the trickle of soil falling from above. This made me a bit nervous, but the nice cool floor down there made this a pleasant place to work.