PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 
FoR NovemBeEr, 1871. 
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A meeting of the Society was held on Wednesday the Ist of 
November, 1871, at 9 Pp. M. 
T. Oldham, Esq., LL. D., Vice-President, in the chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following presentations were laid on the table— 
1.—From Capt. W. L. Samuells, Assist. Commissioner, Pachum- 
ba, Chord line,—Two copper axes. 
The following letter accompanied the donation— 
‘In my letter to you which accompanied the inscriptions, I men- 
tioned to you that some singular looking pieces of copper had been 
accidentally found by a native of this district in digging for bam- 
boo roots on the top of a hillock. I am sending you the only two 
specimens I have, and may as well tell you the circumstances under 
which I came by them. 
‘On returning to Pachumba this year from the Rewah frontier, 
I set about making enquiries as to whether there were any known 
ruins or rock excavations in the neighbourhood, and one day in 
talking to an old resident of the place on this subject, he mentioned 
to me that last year a native had brought Mr. Heyne, the Man- 
ager of the Bengal Coal Company’s mines at Kurhurbaree, some three 
or four very curious looking pieces of copper, which he had dug out 
of a hillock on the borders of this subdivision. On enquiry I found 
that Mr. Heyne had given them all away, but I managed to recover 
one, which I can’t help thinking may have served asa head for a 
battle-axe. I have mounted it on a handle in true primitive 
fashion, and I leave you to judge whether a man with such a wea- 
pon in his hands could not lay about him with some meaning. 
Some who have seen it, think that it is made of bronze, others that 
it is pure copper; but that it has been formed by moulding in 
