210 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. [N.S., XVII. 
collections from an old neolithic settlement}. There is nothing 
to show that the piece of hematite was obtained from any 
by him and by digging up the ruins of this village, the same 
area, locally called ‘ Ita-danr’ (brick-field), was found to 
yield not only stone implements and copper ornaments, 
but also a gold coin which is ‘a Kushana coin of the Huvish- 
ka type.’® From the above statements it is quite clear 
that the implement in question was not found in a natural 
found associated with similar neoliths and from this 
assemblage it may also be concluded that the implement 
was manufactured previously but the marks were inscribed 
at a later date when the Kushana coin was in use or marks 
of the Madras Presidency the stone age must have persisted 
almost to the beginning of the Christian era while ‘ we 
have in the Juangs representatives of the stone age 
] 
made of the same material .® 
1 Journ. Asia. Soc. Beng. Vol. 57, pt. ii, p. 387, 1888. 
2 Proce. Asia. Soc. Beng. p. 222, 1887: 
3 Journ. Asia. Soc. Beng. Vol. 57, pt. i, pp. 7-18, 1888. 
+ Dist. Gazet., p. 80. 
6 Journ. Beh. Oris. res. Soc, Vol. I, pp. 229-253, 1916, 
6 Op. cit., p. 232. 
7 Fergusscn: Tree and serpent worship in India, p. 144, pl. 32. 
8 Dalton: Descriptive ethnology of Bengal, p. 153, 1872, 
* Proc. Asia. Soc. Beng., p. 193, 1868. 
