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there is not anywhere any sign of a building of any kind ever having been 

 on the rock. There is not a chisel mark on any part. On the ridge 

 stretching towards the east in the northiern part of the rock, there 

 are some modern foundations dug out, but they have never been built 

 on. They are only for buildings about 8 ft. broad. There is a 

 Trigonometrical Survey Station on the highest point. This is a circular 

 erection, about 6 ft. in diameter and 3 ft. high. It is made of old 

 bricks, and contains nearly all the old bricks to be found in the whole 

 neighbourhood. One I measured was 15" x 11" X 2~". The next largest 

 bricks I saw were only half this size. On the small plateau below 

 there are some heaps of brick ballast and perhaps three gari loads of 

 brick ends. Here and there are signs of rough foundations of small 

 buildings, rows of stone with the straight surface turned outwards. 

 hi no case did I see any superstractrire on these roivs. In no place are 

 there tivo roivs of stone or brick one on the top of the other. Were all 

 the brick ends in the place to be collected, there would not be a truck load. 



Aftei" much persistent search. I was rewarded by finding a broken 

 stone image on the eastern lowei* plateau, and a corner-brick carved 

 on the edge, amor)gst the debris to the north of the rock. The image 

 is not made of Sangla stone, but of doab red sandstone. It is split in 

 two pieces and has lost (he left arm and the legs. Tiie right hand 

 holds a ball. The features are defaced but there is a tall crown on 

 the head. 



In several places on the plain at the foot of the rock broken pots 

 are found but they lie on the surface^ only. There is no depth of them 

 anyiohere. 



On the rock itself as there are no buildings nor traces of their 

 having been any, so there is no tvell or any source from ivhicli ivater could 

 be obtained, and no tank in ivhichit could be stored. 

 To the north, however, about a quarter of a mile 

 from tlie rock and close by the eastern bank of the 

 canal is an old well made of large bricks. Abojit 

 12 ft. down there is a curious ornamentation going 

 round the well, made up of repetitions of the ac- 

 companying figui^e. This well, the feio big bricks, 

 the carved brick, the broken image, and the broken 

 pots scattered on the surface are the only signs of 



antiquity in the place. General Cunningham says that 4,000 bricks 

 wei'e taken to mark, and that probably 4,000 more are in the 

 Survey Station on the hill top. If I were inclined to be extra- 

 vagant I might say let us suppose that tlie whole of the brick 

 ends about the place represent 12,000 more, then we should have 



