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coilection includes worked specimens of bangles ina 
fragmentary condition from the following districts and 
provinces in India :— 
Mysore. Hyderabad (Raichur Doab) 
Bellary. Kistna. 
Anantapur. Gujarat. 
Kurnul. Kathiawar. 
To these has to be added Guntur District upon the 
authority of Mr. Rea’s researches. 
The localities in Mysore, Bellary, Anantapur, 
Kurnul and Hyderabad adjoin one another and form a 
solid block or district in the southern Deccan some 250 
miles from north to south and 150 miles from east to 
west. The finds in Kistna and Gunttr Districts are of 
separate importance as they consist of fragments of 
bangles associated with Buddhist objects which cannot 
of course be considered prehistoric. 
The localities in Gujarat and Kathiawar form a 
second well-marked geographical area, being situated 
around the Gulf of Cambay adjacent to where chanks 
are fished at the present day. 
Omitting Kistna and Guntur Districts, Mr. Bruce 
Foote’s and Mr. Rea’s collections and explorations in- 
dicate only these two localities as centres of ancient 
chank-working in an examined area which extends from 
Tinnevelly in the south to Rajputana in the north, an 
area inclusive of the whole of Central and Southern 
India. 
In order to be in a position to decide the age of 
these chank fragments it will be most satisfactory if I 
tabulate in the following pages the various sets and 
give such details as Mr. Bruce Foote supplies in his 
descriptive catalogue of the collection, with such com- 
mentary on each as may be pertinent to the subject at 
issue. 
Mysore. 
Srinivasapur in Kolar Taluq, No. 202." Six frag- 
ments of chank bangles associated with iron slag, No. 202 
(158), the half of a weathered basalt celt and large 
* The numbers noted are those given in Mr. Bruce Foote’s ‘ Catalogue 
Raisonne,” Madras Government Museum. 
