oe 
are examples of obliquely cut “shoulder pieces” as 
the apex purposely smashed in as seen in pl. VI, fig. 
which illustrates a modern reject from a Dacca factory, ai 
fragments of the columella and of cut off “beaks.” Fifty- 
three fragments of worked bangles are also shown and a 
considerable proportion, 2783-25 to 2783-35, exhibit 
traces of ornamentation in the form usually of cross 
grooves. Associated with these chank artifacts are 
numerous neolithic chert flakes, scrapers, and cores, also 
a fair quantity of old pottery which Mr. Foote regards as 
of iron age (p. 23. Vol. I), though I am personally inclined 
to place the age considerably more recent for reasons 
to be stated later. The find of a broken iron blade, 
2783-a, at this site is of the utmost importance ; it may 
well be the remnant of a small hand-saw such as is used 
to-day by Bengal workmen for roughing cut nuch of the 
line decoration so characteristic of bangle ornamentation. 
Fragments of chank bangles have also been found at 
two other places in Raichur Doab—at Kotegallu, Ling 
Sugur Taluk and at Rawalkonda. In both cases they 
were associated with neolithic implements, basalt celts 
and very numerous chert and agate flakes ; a considera- 
ble number of the Rawalkonda flakes have biserrate 
edges. At Kotegallu, the objects had been turned up 
during ploughing and at Rawalkonda they appear also to 
have been surface finds ; hence in my opinion the signi- 
ficance and value of the association of the bangle fr: ag- 
ments with undoubted neolithic artifacts are largely 
impaired. 
It may be remarked in passing that the Kotegallu 
and Rawalkonda bangle fragments are of the crudest 
patterns and show no signs of incised carving. 
Kistna District. 
In Southern India, apart from Tinnevelly district 
and the southern region of the Deccan, the only finds of 
chank bangle remains have been at Gudivada in Kistna 
district and at Amaravati in Guntur district. The two 
fragments found atthe former place are without decora- 
tion, and their approximate age is more easily assignable 
than that of any specimens from the Deccan ; the associ- 
ated objects are undoubtedly early Buddhistic in their 
origin, consisting as they do of 4 lead coins, a terracotta 
