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these chank remains were two fragments of sandstone 
hammers. 
This site is notable as being on an islet in the Tapti 
river protected against assault by steep and almost 
inaccessible sides——a place very defensible and therefore 
an ideal place for the settlement of craftsmen. 
(c) Mahuri, in Vijapur Taluk. From “ an old site 
at the head of the gully system which cuts deep into the 
alluvium of the Sabermati” at this place, a series of 
working sections and waste pieces of chank shell was 
found sufficiently numerous and varied to convince me, 
after examination of the fragments, that a bangle work- 
shop undoubtedly existed here at a remote period. The 
presence of sawn waste associated with sawn working 
sections is conclusive. 
Of completed bangles the remains found were few 
(8 are shown in the collection) but of these, three are of 
special interest on account of the elaboration of ornament 
exhibited. Two of these fragments are of broad bangles 
richly carved in patterns (fig. 3310-6-7, pl. IV) very 
closely approximate if indeed not identical with forms in 
use at the present day. The third fine example is a tiny 
fragment (fig. 3310-8, pl. V) of the narrow form of 
bangle known as churz in Bengal, usually worn in sets of 
three on each wrist and figured on pl. XII. The other 
fragments found are of simpler patterns. 
An interesting associated find was that of a small 
“finial” carved out of shell, probably mother-of-pearl, 
(pl.V). It is identical in form with a mother-of-pearl nose- 
pendant now in use among the poorer castes in some 
country districts. in Bengal. An example which I 
purchased in Eastern Bengal, is carved from the shell of 
a river mussel (U/xzo0 sp.). From the alluvium at Mahuri 
whence the bangle fragments came, a few neolithic 
implements, chert flakes and scrapers principally, were 
unearthed, together with several noticeable pieces of 
pottery. Of the latter, one is of special importance as it 
affords some evidence better than the neoliths touching 
the age of the bangle factory once situated at this place. 
It is a small headless figure of a sacred bull, of polished 
earthenware, red externally and black within. Two 
garlands are indicated around the hump by means of 
