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(14) CutsEts differ only in size from neolithic patterns. 
(15) HonLtow ScRAPERS are scarce, and some show very 
small apertures. 
(16) Rounp Scrapers are plentiful, as always. They are 
generally smaller than neolithic patterns, my minutest specimen 
measuring three-eighths by one-quarter of an inch. This year 
however I recovered one from below the surface measuring 
one inch and three-quarters by one inch and five-sixteenths. 
This is an unusually large scraper for Ceylon, even among 
neoliths. 
(17) RouNDED PEBBLES OF QUARTZ, used as hammer stones, 
are smaller than those usually found among neolithic remains, 
where they are exceptionally plentiful in many sizes. 
(18) RounDED PEBBLES OF GNEISS are found not uncom- 
monly in all sizes among neolithic remains on hilltops, where 
they could not possibly have been deposited by natural 
causes. They are often in an advanced stage of disintegration 
and rarely show signs of use. Besides the five recovered in 
Bandarawela this year, | have previously found three speci- 
mens in a cave many feet below the surface associated with 
neolithic remains. Two were large and showed no traces of 
use; the other was small and had lost both ends either by 
hammering or by attrition. I think that either they were 
used as rubbers, or that their softer material recommended 
them as hammers for delicate work. The five recovered this 
year were all small and two of them were lying side by side. 
In completion of my statement I must make mention of the 
immense quantities of chert fragments which are associated 
with the pigmies, sometimes in the form of rude _ blocks, 
sometimes in delicate chips and splinters. The material is 
not known to exist in situ, but isolated boulders are found 
in many parts of the Island, and rounded pebbles of chert 
occur not uncommonly in streams. In view however of the 
extreme rarity of chert implements of all patterns, it is 
impossible at present to account for the abundance of this 
rock among remains both of pigmy and neolithic type. It is 
conceivable that it was used for striking sparks from iron 
pyrites, which is found in parts of Ceylon, though I have not 
met with it in stone-age stations. The modern Veddas are 
