India: A Million Mutinies Now - pg. 357

He ruled from 1556 to 1605. Perhaps the gate had been built in the late 16th century to mark a visit of the emperor's; so the outlines of the bazaar would have been then (in Shakespeare's time) what it was now. There were glimpses of a more recent past - 18th century or 19th century - in the small flat Lucknow bricks that could be seen below the broken plaster on some old buildings. The bricks were set in lines that echoed the line of the structure - in arches, for instance, they were set in concentric arcs - so that they looked like iron filings demonstrating the linnes of magnetic force around a magnet.