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measuring some 300 yards from north to south and some 100 yards across, is
strewn with plentiful fragments of glazed pottery, relief-decorated ware, and
glass bangles. Apart from two small pieces of porcelain, apparently Chinese,
the specimens of glazed ware frequently show floral scrolls incised in a light
slip under a brilliant glaze of varying shades of green, blue, and yellow (see
Kumb. A. 1, 2; Pl. IV). The ware belongs certainly to medieval times, and shows
close resemblance to a type of glazed pottery collected on my third Central-
Asian journey near Sarbīsha above the Sīstān basin, and found also in British
Makrān. Mr. R. L. Hobson ascribes this to Persian manufacture of the ninth
to tenth century.¹ Some features of the technique suggest to Mr. Andrews imita-
tion of Chinese celadon. The glass bangles show great variety of colouring
and are often decorated with 'jewels' in relief on a raised keel (see Kumb. A.
52, 54; Pl. X). No structural remains whatever could be traced.

At a second and smaller debris area to which we were conducted about
3 miles away to the south-west, the same type of glazed pottery fragments was
found, besides plenty of decorated glass bangles, small glass beads as seen in
the specimens Kumb. B. 25–9 (Pl. X), and relief-ornamented unglazed pottery.
The fragment of a moulded glass vessel, decorated with a raised ogee scheme,
Kumb. B. 18 (Pl. X), deserves notice.

On the morning of January 19th a march of some 9 miles to the west, skirting
the foot of rocky spurs which descend northward from a bold hill chain, brought
us to the mouth of the Gīti valley. Owing to subterraneous drainage indicated
by the presence of a few wells this valley holds a certain amount of scrubby
jungle. Where it debouches north-eastwards there rises a precipitous ridge of
sandstone. This forms the extremity of a hill chain trending in an approximately
west to east direction. On the top the ridge bears the ruins of a remarkable hill
stronghold as shown in Plan 8. It is known by the name of Qalāt-i-
Jamshīd, the 'Castle of Jamshīd', the first of the legendary kings of ancient Īrān.
At the northern edge of the fortified summit unscalable wall-like cliffs fall sheer
down to a wide torrent bed, as seen in the photograph, Fig. 27. The crest
rises above the level of this bed from 252 feet at the eastern, to 393 feet at the
western end. From the south the ascent to the crest leads over a succession of
tilted terraces separated by undercut ledges of calcareous sandstone.

The top of the ridge is divided into two unequal parts by a narrow dip near
the eastern end. This dip or ravine is closed for a stretch of about 100 feet by a
wall built with sun-dried bricks, 10 inches square and 3 inches thick, and rising
at its eastern end to 17 feet in height. Beyond the gap the top of the ridge