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to the foot of the mound. Whether the rampart was constructed with earth,
stamped clay, or possibly with sun-dried bricks could not be determined. In-
cluding pottery-strewn ground stretching eastwards, the total length of the site
from east to west measures some 620 yards. Here, too, thick *shōr* covers the
surface of the mound and makes it difficult to recognize smaller debris. With
the exception of one painted potsherd, decorated in black on a grey body, the
pottery found was all plain ware, of red, pink or buff body, often showing a
whitish or greenish-grey slip. One piece, Kuns. 34, of rich terra-cotta colour,
well burnished outside, is part of a bowl or cup, and looks early. Fragments of
alabaster cups and a couple of worked flints pointed to occupation having started
in prehistoric times. Some bronze fragments, and a small piece of lapis lazuli,
were also picked up. It deserves to be noted in this connexion that at neither of
the Kunār-sandal mounds was a single piece of glazed pottery found. On the
much broken top of the mound, where the pottery was of the same kind as on the
slopes, signs of a great conflagration could be seen, the ground being reddened
to a depth of 5 or 6 feet.

From Kunār-sandal a ride of 5 miles to the north-west brought me across a
succession of marshy beds, said to be impassable after rain floods, to the line of
village lands which skirt the foot of a long low hill chain. On an outlying ridge,
above the hamlet of Karīmābād, there stands a small but conspicuous mound
known as Tump-i-Qal'a-kūchak. It rises with steep slopes to a height of fully 52
feet, and on its top, which is almost flat, measures 70 yards from east to west
and about 65 yards across. What pottery could be found was all plain ware, of
red, light buff, or grey colour. One red fragment was burnished on the inside.
As neither glazed nor painted ware could be found, occupation during early
historical times suggested itself.

The route onwards lay at some distance from the foot of the low hill-crest with
which the glacis of the Khorgatu chain breaks off above the Jīruft trough. A
series of small villages ensconced among date-palm groves and orchards was
passed for some 8 miles. Together with the wide belt of fine wheat fields
stretching down towards the river it made an attractive rural landscape, effec-
tively framed by the high mountains which encircle the Jīruft trough on the
north and west. Then, beyond the village of Zangīān, the route passed over a
stony plateau furrowed by flood-beds, along which were to be seen camps of
the nomadic Afshār tribe accustomed to visit Jīruft for winter grazing. From
the top of the plateau we obtained a distant view over the wide head of the
basin where the Halīl Rūd valley descending from the north-west meets the
Rūd-i-shōr on a great stony peneplain. Finally we dropped down to the date
groves and orchards of the small village of Hūkird. There our camp had been