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and covered with jungle, they bore clear evidence of the diminution suffered by the population
of Darēl since those settlements were occupied. Of ' desiccation ' such as might have taken place
since that abandonment or possibly caused it, I saw no indication. In more than one instance,
e. g. at Bojō-kōt and Tarōnalī-kōt, small well-kept irrigation channels were seen still carrying
plenty of water past jungle-covered terraces to fields in the valley below. On the other hand I
noticed that the present villages, whether open or walled, such as the central townships of Mankiāl
and Samagiāl, all occupy ground that could be far more profitably used for cultivation if pressure
of population required it.
Ramal-kōt. I may now proceed to record briefly the ruined sites round Mankiāl in the order in which I
Tarōnalī-
kōt. was able to visit them. About half a mile to the south-east of Dalōt, on a rocky prominence over-
looking the open valley ground occupied by the fields of Mankiāl, lies Ramal-kōt, a walled
enclosure, roughly oval, its longer axis measuring about a hundred yards. Abundant fragments
of pottery, proving prolonged occupation, lay among the walls of the ruined dwellings that filled
the interior.¹¹ The top of a little rocky knob about a hundred yards lower down bears another
walled enclosure, but smaller, known as Zhōmi-kōt (Fig. 20). Parts of the enclosing wall showed
large roughly cut stone blocks up to four feet in length. Proceeding to the south-west along a
small canal which skirts the steep slope of the Dalōt plateau and brings water from the mouth of
the Shigo-gāh Nullah, I was next taken to the ruins of terraced dwellings known as Tarōnalī-kōt.
They occupy the rocky side of an offshoot of the spur that descends from the Chilidār peak and
flanks the Shigo-gāh valley. No enclosure was found here, nor was one needed in view of the
natural strength of the position.
Site of Following the aforesaid watercourse, which is carried with much ingenuity along the pre-
Bojō-kōt.
cipitous rock slopes, we reached the ruins of Bojō-kōt about half a mile farther. They consist
of a series of fortified dwelling-places occupying walled terraces along the narrow crest of a steep
rocky spur. These terraces, twenty to thirty yards in width, rise in succession to a height of about
150 feet above the canal ; and masses of debris from their ruined dwellings covered the steep
slopes. The photograph (Fig. 19) shows the fine view opening from this point up the Shigo-gāh
valley and at its mouth the rocky knoll which bears a similar group of ruins known as Shivo-kōt.
Remains of About 150 yards to the south-west of Bojō-kōt and on a level about 100 feet lower than its
burials.
foot, I was shown a much-decayed terrace the top and slopes of which were covered with remnants
of burned human bones mingled with fragments of roughly decorated pottery. On scraping the
soil here with improvised implements we soon found evidence, in the form of beads, bits of glass
and metal ornaments, that the place had served in pre-Muhammadan times as a burial-place for
human remains which had previously been subjected to burning. A descriptive list of the specimens
collected is given at the close of this section. From the condition in which many of these small
objects were found it appears probable that they must have been picked up with the bone fragments
from the funeral pyre. Others, such as the ornamented plaques in silver and the small amulet
case, Dar. 02 (Plate XI), had probably been removed from the corpse before burning and subse-
quently deposited with the bone remnants in separate small receptacles. That these ordinarily
consisted of pottery urns or the like could safely be concluded from the quantity of potsherds found
in the soil and from the analogy of exactly corresponding finds at Buddhist sacred sites so wide
apart as Shōrchuk and Sahri-bahlōl.¹²
No chrono- No coins were found at the site, nor any other definite chronological indication. The orna-
logical
indications. mental motifs on the small metal objects, unmistakably evolved under the influence of Indian
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