D, 
Gujarat and Kathiawar. 
Mr. Bruce Foote’s labours prove that the custom of 
using chank bangles was widely spread and that chank- 
bangle factories were numerous in these two provinces 
in ancient times. 
The finds which he records are as follows :— 
In Kathiawar :— 
(a) Damnagar, Amreli Prant. In the fields (pre- 
sumably upon the surface) north of the camping tope at 
this town a great number of chank bangles in a fragment- 
ary condition were found and of these 4I pieces are 
represented in the Museum collection. Three working 
fragments were also found at the same place, together 
with a couple of cowries, and a Trochus shell round 
upon three sides. Associated were such neoliths as a 
basalt corncrusher, a bloodstone hammer and chert and 
agate cores. 
(6) Babapur. At this village situated 13 miles 
westward of Amreli, the alluvium of the left bank of the 
Shitranji river yielded a large and important series of 
neolithic chert flakes, scrapers, slingstones, and cores in 
association with 13 fragments of finished chank bangles, 
together with two working fragments and part of the 
columella of a chank. Several of the flint flakes are 
worked upon one or both edges, and one of the bangle 
fragments exhibits a chaste design executed with con- 
siderable delicacy (pl. IV, fig. 3615-1). The other 
bangles are of plain and crude design. 
(v) Ambavalli. Seventy-one fragments of broken 
bangles from an old site at this place ; are represented in 
the Museum collection (Nos. 3622-1 to 65 and 81 to 80). 
Of these the greater number are ornamented by pattern 
grooving and many show an elaboration of design as great 
as those now manufactured in Bengal. The designs in 
many instances are precisely the same as those in vogue 
to-day. Seventeen of the finest examples are shown on 
plate V, borrowed from the Foote catalogue. 
Associated with these bangle fragments were numer- 
ous portions of sawn sections of chank shells, consti- 
tuting the rough working material required by the bangle 
carver ; 33 fragments are shown (Nos. 3622-63 to 65 and 
go to 119), 
