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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, Peté, 3 miles west of Nagaldinni, associated 
with shell beads (Cowry, Mateca and? Nerita) and 
ottery 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). 
(2) 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, Adont 
Taluk. 
(e) Sandurvallam, 1516—B, C and D. Ata site, 
west of Sandurvallam, 15$ miles north-east of Bellary, 
2 fragments of worked chank bangles (PI. IV, fig. 1516) 
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 inthe Dacca workshops 
are largely distributed to other towns to be carved and 
polished). 
(f) Hampasagra, on the Tungabhadra, 1518/5-23. 
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 Pa/udina shells 
and fragments of Cypraca moneta and of a Nerita. The 
fragments show considerable skill in engraving patterns 
