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were found on an old site on Havaligi Hill, an isolated 

 granite hill in Gooty Taluk, 40 miles north-west of 

 Anantapur, 



These were associated with a granite mealing stone 

 and several celts, hammers, flakers and corncrushers 

 chietly of basalt and diorite and all of neolithic facies, 

 together with a large number of chert and agate flake 

 artifacts, many of which were serrated and biserrated. 

 Mr. Bruce Foote i^loc, cit. Vol. I, p. 81) says " Exactly 

 for what purpose they " (these highly worked flakes) 

 " were made is problematic unless indeed they were 

 nsed for ivorking the patterns on chank shell banqles. 

 Some are really delicate objects the preparation of which 

 must have required much time and great care." 

 Numerous cores of both chert and apate were found 

 here. — {Note. In connection with the above suggestion 

 as to the probable use of the flakes, it must be noted 

 that from the same site came 2085, a fragment of iron 

 slag, which indicates a knowledge of iron, a much more 

 suitable material for chank working tools than chert or 

 agate flakes, however carefully worked. Besides, the 

 remains give no indication of this site having been 

 the scene of a bangle-factory, as all the fragments are 

 worked and just the fragments which we see when 

 bangles being broken accidentally or purposely, are 

 thrown aside by the wearers). 



Bruce Foote says [loc. cit.) " There are many signs 

 of continued habitation on the middle and eastern parts 

 of the hill, especially the latter, in the shape of mealing 

 plr^ces. mostly small and deepish ovals : the shallower 

 hollows are of much larger size superficially." 



'b\ Tadpatri Railway Station, 2106-a. The only 

 other find of chank bangle remains was one of a plain 

 unornamented bangle washed out of made ground north 

 of Tadpatri Railway Station ; at the same place were 

 found cores of red jasper and of chert and a fragment of 

 a steatite vessel showinp- sio-ns of havino- been turned on 

 a lathe. All these remains are classed as neolithic by 

 Mr. Bruce Foote. 



Cuddapah. 



(a) MundlavaripalU on the Papaghni River. No. 2203. 

 A large number (29) of fragments of chank bangles from 



