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Nagaldinni, Adoni Taluk, 40 miles north-east of Bellary, 

 associated with a large number of neolithic flakes and 

 cores of chert and agate. 



(c) Nagaldinni, Adoni Taluk, 1455/16-57. A large 

 number (42) of chank bangles were also turned 

 up by the plough in fields at an old site near the 

 Tower Rock, Pete, 3 miles west of Nagaldinni, associated 

 with shell beads (Cowry, Natica and } Isierita) and 

 pottery which Bruce Foote says is "probably of iron 

 age." (All these bangle fragments lack ornamentation ; 

 they are of the simplest and most primitive form and 

 bespeak either lack of skill on the part of the workers or 

 primitive taste on that of the wearers. Low-caste 

 Hindu women in Bengal at the present day wear some- 

 what similar bangles in the form of armlets consisting of 

 numerous rings). 



{a) Mugati, Adoni Taluk, 1457/38 & 39. Two frag- 

 ments of chank bangles were associated with numerous 

 flakes, cores, strikers, etc., of chert and agate obtained 

 from a site on a low hill, west of Mugati, Adoni 

 Taluk. 



{e) Sandurvallam, 15 16 — B, C and D. At a site, 

 west of Sandurvallam, 15^ miles north-east of Bellary, 

 2 fragments of worked chank bangles (PI. IV, fig. 15 16) 

 and a working fragment of chank shell were found. 

 The only objects associated with these were a portion of 

 the lid of an earthenware vessel and a piece of reddle or 

 earthy haematite ground upon one side. (The discovery 

 of a single working fragment is insufficient evidence that 

 this was once the site of a bangle factory ; in Bengal 

 to-day the working sections cut in the Dacca workshops 

 are largely distributed to other towns to be carved and 

 polished). 



(/) Hampasagra, on the Tungabhadra, 15 18/5-23. 

 The discovery of 18 fragments of chank bangles and a 

 shoulder portion of shell sawn off as in the cutting up of 

 shells for bangles, from made ground on the right bank 

 of the Tungabhadra, east of Hampasagra, 53 miles west 

 of Bellary, furnishes evidence of the extensive use of 

 chank bangles in ancient days in this neighbourhood. 

 With them were beads made of entire Paludina shells 

 and fragments of Cypraea inoneta and of a Nerita. The 

 fragments show considerable skill in engraving patterns 



