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of its smaller end. A second specimen in Mr. Driver's collection 

 differs only in being a little shorter. 



Millems. 

 Heiglit from butt to functional end, ... ... 84 



Width of larger flat side at butt, ... ... ... 65 



„ „ „ at functional end,,.. .,. 36 



„ smaller flat side at butt, , ... ... 48 



„ „ „ at functional end,... ... 32 



From the nature of the unmistakable signs of wear it exhibits at the 

 smaller end, as from that of its composition, I infer that this implement 

 was used as a polisher, though this may not have been its original use, 

 for it is possible that it may once have been one of the ' legs ' of a two- 

 legged instrument similar to one of unknown origin and use preserved 

 in the Indian Museum, in which case the two examples of it, being of 

 the same side, must necessarily be parts of two similar instruments. 



A triangular wedge-shaped piece of dark purple flinty jasper bears 

 evident signs of long use as a polisher or graver or both possibly. 

 It is worn to a smooth, polished, and slightly convex surface on one 

 of its two large faces, the other large face and its three sides presenting 

 the natural surface of the parent rock from which it was chipped ; it 

 is smoothly and extensively rounded off and polished by use at the 

 junction of its two largest sides, along the lower edge of which the 

 polishing extends, widening on the one side towards the thin end of the 

 wedge, and forming on the other a very narrow triangular facet meeting 

 the principal polished surface at an obtuse angle, by which the cir- 

 cumferential grooves with which some of the stone beads* occurring 

 in the same spot are ornamented may well have been engraved. The 

 instrument is capable of imparting a high polish to a dull facet of a 

 quartz crystal or to a carnelian bead, and it is an excellent touchstone, 

 as I have proved by experiment. 



Millems. 

 Length, from the angle at thicker end to middle of 

 thinner end, ... ... ... ... ... 60 



* These beads are doubtless of much later age than the celt, the ringstone, and 

 the arrow-heads described below. That they, like the prehistoric objects, were made 

 on the spot where they have been found seems satisfactorily proved by the association 

 with them of bits of stone of different kinds (chalcedony, carnelian, onyx, sardonyx, 

 rock-crystal, etc.) dressed roughly into shape all ready to be ground into beads, 

 of roughly ground and imperfectly polished, but unbored, beads, of beads perfectly 

 polished and partially bored, in fact, of beads in all stages of manufacture. They 

 belong clearly to several different periods, some being quite rude (? prehistoric), and 

 others quite artistic both in shape and ornamentation, and thus indicating that 

 their mauafactttrers had attained to a much higher grade of civilization. 



