Excavation At Agroha, Punjab (Memoirs of Archaeological Survey of India)

The excavation described in the following pages was carried out by me in 1938-29 as Superintendent of the Frontier Circle, Lahore. Almost immediately afterwards, the publication of the Annual Reports of the Archaeological Survey of where the report was to appear, was suspended as a result of war-time restrictions on printing, and later on the publication of the series was altogether abandoned.

These facts will explain the delay in the publication of the report, but the difficulties did not end here The antiquities and records of the excavation, kept in the office of the Frontier Circle, became inaccessible to us after the partition of India. The result has been that some of the line-drawings had to be reproduced from the photographs of the drawings which were available on this side of the border. A proper selection of pottery and other antiquities for illustration had also to be ruled out for the same reason. The author is fully alive to these shortcomings in the report, but feels that notwithstanding these the report may be of some use to archaeologists, especially those Who may -later on resume the excavation at Agroha or explore the neighbouring areas.

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