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left bank of Papaghni River, at Mundlavaripalll, Kadlri 

 Taluk. Three exhibit carved patterns such as may be 

 made by a saw or a file, the others are without incised 

 carving. 



With them were associated a large and remarkable 

 series of fragments of old pottery to which Mr. Bruce 

 Foote assigns a neolithic origin i^loc. cit. Vol. !. p. 23). 

 No particulars are given as to the depth below the sur- 

 face at which these remains were found, or whether they 

 were found loose on the surface. 



Kiii'uool District. 



(a) Bastipad on the Hindri River. No. 2258. A 

 most important find was made by Mr. Bruce Foote in 

 1888, on the left bank of the Hindri, opposite the village 

 of Bastipad, of large numbers of interesting potsherds, 

 fraofments of finished and unfinished chank banoles, and 



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over a score of pieces of chank shells of exactly the same 

 character as those now produced in the cutting up of 

 chanks in Dacca bangle workshops. A piece of iron 

 slag and another of specular iron were also produced 

 from the same site, together with a broken celt and an 

 oblong hone both made of diorite, and some neolithic 

 chert flakes. 



These remains appear to have been collected from 

 the surface of ploughed fields as Mr. Bruce Foote says 

 the pottery was mostly much broken up by the ploughing 

 of the fields which had come to occupy the old site in 

 which they had been buried. This site must have been 

 a populous village in olden times to judge from the 

 quantities of potsherds found, and there can be no doubt 

 that one of the industries of this ancient village was that 

 of chank bangle manufacture. The waste pieces and the 

 ring sections cut from the shell are precisely what we 

 meet with in Bengal workshops at the present day. 

 The striations made by the slicing saw are still clearly to 

 be discerned and their regularity and the straightness 

 of the cut are the same as those produced by the big 

 semilunar fine-toothed saw now in use in Dacca factories 

 for this purpose. The presence of the hone and the two 

 pieces of iron have a direct bearing on this matter. The 

 evidence taken altogether disproves completely to my 

 mind, the possibility that |the bangle fragments found 



