The lowest of the floors is formed of paving stones and granite cement, and the level of this is flush with the bottom course of blocks in the drain. But underneath this undoubtedly old floor, which was apparently laid down when the east wall was built, there are cement steps and buttresses at a depth of some 18 in. below the level of the drain. Underneath the floor were found two phalli, fragments of ornamented bowls and soapstone beams, clearly showing that the space underneath this lowest floor had been occupied before the floor was laid.
A floor of a pinkish-coloured cement, similar to that found in other enclosures, is at some distance above the granite cement floor, and on this floor were found very old native articles and quantities of buck bones and ashes. Above this are floors of thin daga (clay), and on each of these were also bones and ashes and native articles which are not now manufactured.
The position of the east wall of this enclosure and the fact of its covering some older enclosure seem to point to it as not being a portion of the original building.
CENTRAL AREA
This area of unexplored ground lies at the centre of the temple. It was originally very much larger, but recent excavations have reduced it in extent. The space covered is 80 ft. from east to west, and 30 ft. from north to south, and it extends between Nos. 5 and 14 Enclosures, and Nos. 1 and 10 Enclosures.
S.E. INTERIOR OF ELLIPTICAL TEMPLE, LOOKING N.N.E., SHEWING EXCAVATIONS ON PLATFORM AREA, 1902–4
Some plans of the temple show dotted lines to mark position of conjectured walls, but most of these have been found not to exist. On the surface of the highest portion of this area are slight walls of shallow foundations and poor construction built across soil and blocks thrown promiscuously together, and probably the blocks and the debris of some buried structures at a lower level.
PLATFORM AREA
Immediately in front of and adjoining the Sacred Enclosure in which stands the Conical Tower, and overlooked by The Platform, is a large open area in the form of a bow, the rounded side—east and south-east—being formed by No. 9 Enclosure, The Platform, and Nos. 11, 12, and 13 Enclosures, while the straight side, from south-west to north-east, is formed by Nos. 7 and 10 Enclosures, a circular platform, and No. 13 Enclosure.