Annual Report of the Director General of Archaeology in India 1919-1920

achieved comprised anfong ()flier items the rebuilding of the walls of the great tank where they had collapsed through inundation and the ensuing susidence of the adjacent ground ; the rebuilding of the greater part of one of the corner baradaris minor repairs to the central pavilion in the tank and its Punjab ' (Muhammadan and British Mon umeits). [...] The north wall of the Hall of Conference being in a very unstable con-- dition -owing to cracks and fissures has been rebuilt to a height of 8 feet in order to cosolidate the structure while in the Monastic Quadrangle the uneven and jagged tops of the walls have been repaired and the previous gaps filled in to the height of the h'ghest adjoining portions. [...] In the Karachi District further progre'As was made in the task of conserving the vast ruins in the Necropolis on the Makli Hills near Tatta which had been very imperfectly surveyed in the past with the result that a large number of valuable monumenthad escaped attentions Owing to the increase in the grant by the Local Government conservation work in the Western Circlwas.practically doubled [...] In the case of the first two monuments the repairs were necessitated by the damage caused by the earthquake and cyclone of 1918 while in the case of the others the conservation work aimed at making good defective m" sonry jungle clearance and the provision of iron doorway and notice-boards"11 in the comp4und. [...] At -Bilhari the measures carried out consisted in cementing the roof of the porch re-erecting and strengthening the old columns of the same (losing the openings on the north and south of the shrine with wire netting replacing missing stones in the platform south-east of the porch erecting a wire-fencing round the platform and collecting inside it the images previously lying scattered about as