Ball — On Ancient Stone Implements of India. 393 



In Bandelkhand, as I have indicated in the Table, a large number 

 were obtained many years ago. Some of these, I am from my recol- 

 lection of them inclined to believe, were not implements at all ; 

 but were prepared as symbols of the Lingum, and indeed they 

 appear to have been chiefly obtained near altars. 



The perforated stones — of which I exhibit one example, picked up 

 by myself from the surface at Mopani, in the Central Provinces — are 

 also somewhat rare ; but a few have also been obtained near Jabalpur. 

 I shall allude to their probable uses, and their resemblance to forms 

 met with in other parts of the world, on a future page. 



Bajptjtana and Central India. 



A considerable number of chipped quartzites have been obtained 

 in this area ; but as details have not been published, I am unable 

 to give the particulars. At Kerowlie a flint core was also obtained. 



Bombay. 



At Peyton, on the Godaveri, Mr. A. P». Wynne, of the Geological 

 Survey, obtained a well-fashioned flint knife, which, since it occurred 

 in gravels containing bones of extinct pleistocene mammalia, is one of 

 the most important discoveries yet made in India. 



SlND AND BeLTTCHISTAN. 



Flint cores from Sind were described and figured in the Geological 

 Magazine for 1866, by Mr. John Evans. They were originally said to 

 have been found three feet below the surface of the (nummulitic lime- 

 stone) rock in the bed of the Indus. This statement was subsequently 

 corrected; but, in 1875, Mr. "W. T. Blanford, who was then at 

 Sakkar, was given some cores, which were said likewise to have been 

 found two or three feet beneath the limestone. His examination 

 of the rock in situ, however, appears to have convinced him that the 

 specimens must have first fallen, or been washed into, the holes and 

 crevices which abound in every direction. On the hills about Bohri 

 and Sakkar both flakes and cores abound ; but the latter are not so 

 symmetrically formed as are those from the bed of the Indus. 



Only last year Mr. W. T. Blanford received from Major Mockler, 

 from Sutkagen-Dor, forty miles north-west of Gwadar, on the Makran 

 coast (Beluchistan), a number of articles of pottery, &c. ; together 

 with which there were " some very well-shaped knives, precisely 

 such as we might expect to have been split off from the cores 

 from Sakkar."'* This is the most western locality whence flakes 

 of this type have, as yet, been recorded. No implements of other 



* rroc. A. S. £., 1877, p. 157, plate ii., fig. 15. 



