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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 March 2011
Dārzīn is a village located on the main road eastward from Kirmān to Bam, at the point where the branch road diverges to Jīruft (Fig. 1). East of the present village there stand a number of ruined mud-brick buildings of interesting form and ground plan, surrounded by a substantial spread of Islamic pottery containing a fair proportion of slip-painted ware. The latter fabric suggests settlements at least as early as the Sāmānid period. In 1977 the present writer had the opportunity to visit the site, and prepared drawings of the momuments with a view to establishing their probable date. The result of this survey suggests that these ruins could be amongst the earliest Islamic structures still extant in Iran. The purpose of this article is to present this evidence.
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