MANUAL OF THE NILAGIRI DISTRICT. 



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Taken out of the Nilagiri cairus by Mr, Breaks : 



Spearheads. 



Knives. 



Sickles. 



Cornelian beads. 



Pottery (vaiyiug in quality from 

 very coarse to fine), small vessels 

 containing a colorless fluid. 



Miniature pots and weapons. 



Lamps or censers. 



Charcoal. 



Burut bones. 



Ashes and decomposed animal matter. 



Shi-eda of silk. (Woollen cloth is found 



in Europe.) 

 Gold ornaments. 

 Pavements on which the buried articles 



rest. 

 Bells. 



CHAP. X. 



ANTIQL-ITIIl?' 



Eepresentations of the buffalo, horse, sheep, and deer are very 

 common. Colonel Congreve writes : " When comparing the 

 barrows of the Nilagiris with those in Dorsetshire I omitted 

 to mention that in one of those ancient Celtic cemeteries was 

 found a young bullock's head enclosed in a 'patera of earthen- 

 ware.'' 



The bright red glazing and the zigzag and harrow-headed 

 mouldings of some of the urns are common to both. 



IRON iMPLEMENT C0NOR&VE. 



Next in order — because they, too, have probably been used as Kistvaen.-?. 

 tombs — are the Kistvaens. There is less danger of confusion as 

 regards this term, for in every variety — and there are several — 

 the hist or chest distinguishes them. The name, however, has 

 sometimes been erroneously given to free-standing dolmens or 

 cromlechs. The hist is almost invariably formed of large stone 

 slabs so placed as to enclose a square space or vault, but the 

 aperture varies from a round hole pierced in one side to a large 

 space formed by the absence of one of the slabs. Those in the 

 Nilagiris are of the first kind, the upper edge of the kist being 

 level with the surface of the ground. They are surrounded by 

 a circle of single stones. As far as is at present known, they 



