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It was a Buddhist settlement with Buddhist Stup and Vihar and many other relics of the Buddhist settlement. The artistic tendencies reveled here belong to the late khshatrap period and might be a collateral development in Western India where elements of Gandhar as well as Mathura art of Kushans were well known. 110
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The iron smelting was undertaken at this site in the early century of the Christian era.
These are the antiquities, which are similar to those found at Nani Rayan.
Plain Red ware
Stamped Ware and Negatives
Red Polished ware
Black arretine type
Terracotta Beads and Balls
Semiprecious stone beads
Mouths and Spouts
Animal figurines
Stone objects
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Coins (Kshatrap: Maitrak:Indo Sassanian)111
Many of these objects bear such gross resemblance to my finds that they seem to have originated from an identical period having cultural similarities.
Somnath:
The excavation at Somnath (Prabhas) suggests a continuous habitation from the Chalcolithic period down to the early historic period and even medieval period with some gaps.
The dish on stand of Chalcolithic period, red polished ware from the history period, the shell bangles with different designs and having varying degree of antiquity, terracotta beads, beads of agate, and shell beads, stone objects like mullers and large stone balls and coins from kshatrap and gupta period bear a close resemblance to the similar objects found from Nani Rayan.
Out of many types of pottery obtained from here at least the amphorae is a foreign import, which again is similar to those, found from Nani Rayan site. 112
110 A Report on Excavation at Dev Ni Mori by Dr. R.N.Mehta and Dr.S.N.Chaudhari published by Dept of archeology M.S Uni. Vadodara
111 A Report on Excavation at Dev Ni Mori by Dr. R.N.Mehta and Dr.S.N.Chaudhari published by Dept of archeology M.S Uni. Vadodara
112 excavation report of Somnath by DR. R.N.Mehta. And Dr.S.N.Choudhari. Published by M.S.University.
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