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part adjoining it, I found two small circular blocks of masonry and one 
square one. The former may have been memorial marks, small pagodas 
such as Bnddhists build close to large stupas and other sacred buildings. 
The square block was probably a monk’s platform. On the east of 13 
I found, several feet below the earth, remains of another offset-brick 
base, which is of undoubted antiquity, but I had not the funds to con¬ 
tinue the excavation here. 
Nos. 14, 15, 16, call for no note. No. 17 is a curious construc¬ 
tion. It seems to have been a stupa but may have been a cell. I cleared 
the mound in which it was hid and opened it, but did not go below the 
surface of the earth around it. 
The building by me marked 18, is that which General Cunningham 
describes as a stupa and marks 5. I found nothing in it, though I went 
several feet deeper than Cunningham had gone. I opened the building 
all round outside by a trench about 9 ft. deep, and I ran a trench 9 ft. 
deep from the middle of the building to the east and west taking 
the line of the octagonal well. The trench on the east is not 
marked in the map as it gave no result. That on the west, ffhh, 
and others near it ffgg , and jjll , yielded some results which I shall 
refer to presently. At the north-west corner of the enclosing wall, 
I found some very curious vessels, pottery, well-baked and massive. 
These were large hemispherical bowls. They were lying bottom up 
and some were 5 feet in diameter. There were some smaller. There 
were also ring-like pieces of pottery of similar dimensions. The 
only explanation I can give of these is, that they were used in making 
umbrella-like cupolas on the top of stupas, or by piling the hemispheres 
on the cylinders they may have been used in making small memorial 
pagodas. Earth would in the latter case have been filled in as the suc¬ 
cessive pieces were piled on one another. 
Nos. 20, 21, 22, 23 stand on the southern elevation, where General 
Cunningham has marked 11 and 12. His No. 12 corresponds to my 
No. 20, and I did not do more than clear the upper surface of a part of 
it. The building 21 turned out to be so large and promising that I con¬ 
fined myself to it. The western wall of No. 21 runs on to meet No. 24, 
and a wall runs east from 24 which I did not fully expose. Hence it is 
not shown. Nos. 22 and 23 are adjuncts to 21 and have probably served 
some accessory purpose to the main building. No. 21 is 128 ft. by 118 ft 
and the whole block is unquestionably one piece. I cleared the building 
all round, going down about 13 ft. on the south, the west, and the north, 
I did not go quite so deep at the east. The door was on the east. I 
found that this building had one characteristic offset brick base at the 
lowest part and was there constructed of very large bricks. There were 
