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upon the outer surface — Mr. Bruce Foote places the 

 age as late neolithic or early iron age (p. 75, Vol. II). 

 It is quite probable that this was the site of a bangle 

 factory for while the presence of a working section is 

 not sufficient evidence, that of a waste fragment such as 

 is cut off the shell when sawing it into working sections 

 is almost conclusive because there is no object in trans- 

 porting waste to a distance from the factory. Usually 

 such wastage is burned to make lime, shell lime being 

 highly valued in India for whitewashing and fine stucco 

 work. 



(g) Hadagalli, 1518/a, b and c. From made ground 

 in the north bank of a nullah, at Huvina, near Hadagalli, 

 65 miles west of Bellary, came a single bangle fragment 

 with two money cowries {Gypraea moneta). 



[h) Raidrug, 1552/1. A fragment of a bangle found 

 on a village site south-east of the Tope, Raidrug. 



(?) Malyam, 1565/ 156- 158. The mounds south of 

 Malyam, Raidrug Taluk, yielded three fragments of chank 

 bangles. From the same mounds came three fragments 

 of scrapers made of Unio shell, together with a flake of 

 specular iron, and an oval disc of earthy haematite 

 having two faces and a side ground. Also much pottery 

 which Mr. Foote says is ''probably neolithic" and a 

 small neolithic celt and diorite corncrusher ; however, 

 on p. 24, Vol. I, he refers to the Malyam pottery as of 

 "typical iron age." Half of a hone (1557) of slatey 

 limestone, deeply worn by use, is a notable find at this 

 site. With the bangle fragments, etc., was a marginal 

 scute of the carapace of a species of turtle. 



{k) Bellaguppa, 1 5 74/4-1 1. From an old site north 

 of Bellaguppa, came a fragment of a working section of 

 chank shell, an entire Cypraea moneta, four fragments of 

 scraper made of Unio shell,* and three fragments of 

 chank bangles ; associated with these were a neolithic 

 celt, a fragment of a corncrusher, some pottery and two 

 metal fragments, one being possibly part of a bronze 

 ring. 



Ananlapur. 



(a) Havaligi Hill, Gooty Taluk, 2088/2-9. Eight frag- 

 ments of chank bangles without incised ornamentation 



• Similar scrapers made from the same kind of shell are in use in Ganjam at 

 the present day. They are emplojed largely for th« purpose of peeling mangoes. 



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