Exploring the Site of Vijnote: Its Present Condition and Antiquities.

Abstract

 The Vijnote is an archaeological site, present at the distance of 10 km in the southeast of the Reti town in Taluka Daharki, District Ghotki, Sindh. The site was first discovered during the British period. The comprehensive documentary evidences of the site can be traced in the Antiquity of Sindh with an historical outline by Henry Cousens. Furthermore, stone beads, animal and human figurines, variety of the coins, the bricks and pottery scattered and other cultural material are found from the surface of the site. Cousens marked that there is resemblance of this site with the site of Al-Mansurah, at Shahdadpur, District Sanghar, Sindh, (Cousens, 1929). Current study will explore the mounds and cultural material present on the surface of site to comprehend the origin and development of this large settlement of the glorious past of the Sindh. The current study also examines the existing conditions of the historical ruins and their significant in the Archaeological history of Sindh.