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With the exception of a few unimportant potsherds 

 the only other object of importance found at this site 

 was a small iron knife with tang. No stone implements 

 were discovered, and no information is given as to the 

 precise conditions under which any of the exhibits were 

 found ; presumably they lay on the surface of the ground 

 examined. 



(d) Sonnaria. Fragments of two chank bangles of 

 simple pattern apparently found on the ground surface. 

 Fig. 3623, pi. IV, shows the simple, semi-cylindrical 

 pattern of one fragment. A chert scraper comes from 

 the same locality. 



(e) Kodinar. On the surface of Mr, Foote's camping 

 ground were found several sawn portions of chank shell, 

 two being shoulder slices such as are found in the 

 wastage from a bangle workshop. 



{/") Valabhipur (the modern Walah). From the ruins 

 of the ancient city Mr. Foote obtained a large and most 

 interesting series of chank bangle fragments, 62 in 

 number, whereof ten of the most noteworthy are repro- 

 duced on pi. IV, under number 3493. With'them were a 

 smaller number (7) of sawn working sections. A few 

 marine shells {^ISie^Hta, Nassa, Ostrea, and Conus) were 

 also found among the ruins. 



Ill Gujarat: — 



[a) Sigam, on north bank of the Heran River. Five 

 weathered sawn working sections of chanks are re- 

 presented in the collection from this site. No finished 

 remains of bangles were seen. The site yielded a 

 variety of neolithic flakes and cores and two sandstone 

 hammers or pestles. No indication is given of the 

 precise mode of occurrence, but I conclude they were all 

 surface finds. 



[b) Kamrej, 12 miles north-east of Surat, The 

 summit of a small islet in the Tapti river at this place 

 yielded three sawn shoulder slices (workshop waste) of 

 chank shells and a single fragment of finished bangle. 

 The latter is remarkable for the peculiarity and elegance 

 of its pattern, a broad and closely worked zig-zag groove 

 such as I have never seen either among ancient bangle 

 fragments or on any of the present-day productions of 

 Bengal. It is figured as No. 3066-^ on pi. IV. With 



