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quantities of fragments of pottery. The particular 

 place where the above were found was to .the east of the 

 bigtank at Srinivaspur, " where several acres of ground 

 are covered with much comminuted earthenware lying 



in a thin layer With the pottery I 



found half a celt of basalt minus its butt but weathered 

 and trimmed at its cutting edge. Haifa dozen pieces of 

 broken bangles of chank shell occurred scattered about 

 in the layer of potsherds. Noteworthy among the broken 

 sherds are the vase bases Nos. 202/83-91 of highly 

 polished brown, or red and brown colours." A flat sherd, 

 No. 202/99, is described as " black half polished with an 

 impressed "pattern like many small tents ; a similar frag- 

 ment was found by Mr. R. Sewell at Gudivada in the 

 Kistna district." The age of these potsherds, etc., is 

 stated by Bruce Foote both on page 1 1 and on page 23, 

 volume 2, as apparently neolithic. In my opinion, how- 

 ever, the presence of chank-bangle fragments found 

 among the pottery indicates the age to be considerably 

 later than neolithic days and pertaining to a time when iron 

 was freely employed, as I cannot admit that chank shells 

 can be sawn and bangles made therefrom without the 

 use of a metal saw ; the association of a fragment of iron 

 slag is significant. Apart from this, the presence of 

 No. 202/99, described as decorated with a similar 

 pattern to that upon some fragments of a fine vessel 

 found at Gudivada in the Kistna district is evidence in 

 favour of the comparatively late date of these Kolar 

 specimens as the Kistna ones belong certainly to his- 

 toric times as they comprise lead coins and a terracotta 

 head of a figurine, very classic in appearance, apparently 

 belonging to early Buddhist times. With the Kistna 

 specimens fragments of chank bangles are also associated. 



Bellary. 



(a) Manakurti Hill, 1353. " Columella of a chank 

 shell, upper end ground." Found at same place were a 

 small flake scraper of chert and a small quartz flake. 

 {Note. — Similar fragments of chank columellas are said 

 to be used by some tribes in Bhutan as ear and neck 

 ornaments). 



{b) Nagaldinni,Adoni Taluk, 1442/77-79. Three frag- 

 ments of chank bangles came from made ground, east of 



