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left bank of Papaghni River, at Mundlavaripalli, Kadiri 
Taluk. Three exhibit carved patterns such as may be 
made by a saw or a file, the others are without incised 
carving. 
With them were associated a large and remarkable 
series of fragments of old pottery to which Mr. Bruce 
Foote assigns a neolithic origin (oc. cz¢t. Vol. I. p. 23). 
No particulars are given as to the depth below the sur- 
face at which these remains were found, or whether they 
were found loose on the surface. 
Kurnool District. 
(a) Bastipad on the Hindri River. No. 2258. A 
most important find was made by Mr. Bruce Foote in 
1888, on the left bank of the Hindri, opposite the village 
of Bastipad, of large numbers of interesting potsherds, 
fragments of finished and unfinished chank bangles, and 
over a score of pieces of chank shells of exactly the same 
character as those now produced in the cutting up of 
chanks in Dacca bangle workshops. A piece of iron 
slag and another of specular iron were also produced 
from the same site, together with a broken celt and an 
oblong hone both made of diorite, and some neolithic 
chert flakes. 
These remains appear to have been collected from 
the surface of ploughed fields as Mr. Bruce Foote says 
the pottery was mostly much broken up by the ploughing 
of the fields which had come to occupy the old site in 
which they kad been buried. This site must have been 
a populous village in olden times to judge from the 
quantities of potsherds found, and there can be no doubt 
that one of the industries of this ancient village was that 
of chank bangle manufacture. The waste pieces and the 
ring sections cut from the shell are precisely what we 
meet with in Bengal workshops at the present day. 
The striations made by the slicing saw are still clearly to 
be discerned and their regularity and the straightness 
of the cut are the same as those produced by the big 
semilunar fine-toothed saw now in use in Dacca factories 
for this purpose. The presence of the hone and the two 
pieces of iron have a direct bearing on this matter, The 
evidence taken altogether disproves completely to my 
mind, the possibility that |the bangle fragments found 
