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made in grinding the cutting edges of celts, and my inference has since 

 been confirmed by finding similar polished grooves on granitoid hills in 

 the Bellary country which were great centres of the celt manufacture. 

 The grooves were about 10 to 14 inches long, about li wide in the mid- 

 dle, and tapered off to a sharp point at either end. The greatest depth 

 of the groove was at the centre and varied from l^ to nearly 2 inches. 

 The polish was best preserved in the grooves that had been filled up 

 with soil washed in by rain. 



A few miles west of this place, I came on a large dyke of very fine 

 grained greenstone, the surface of the western end of which, near the 

 village of Arur, had been considerably broken up and yet showed no 

 signs of ordinary quarry work ; a large quantity of debris of an uncommon 

 character lay about, which struck me as having possibly been produced 

 in the manufacture of stone implements ; some of the fragments being 

 very shapely flakes. A few minutes' search gave me a well-shaped celfc 

 in the first or rough stage. Farther search would I feel sure have pro- 

 duced more evidence as to this having been a celt factory, but I had 

 not the time to spare for it. 



§.7. In October 1883, I had the pleasure of making a very inter- 

 esting find at Patpad, a small village 4 miles west of Banaganpalli, in 

 Karnul District. The spot on which the find was made is a piece of 

 slightly irregular ground, triangular in shape, and enclosed between the 

 high road, the end of a small limestone ridge, and a small stream which 

 runs south-east into the Suru river, a confluent of the Peneru, or Northern 

 Pinakini. Near the centre of the ground, I noticed a few fragments of 

 bright red antique pottery sticking in the sides of a tiny rain-gully. 

 Being greatly taken up with excavations in a large cave some distance 

 off, I thought no more about them ; but, a few days later, having found 

 some interesting prehistoric pottery at some depth in excavating in one 

 of the passages of my cave, and taken a great deal of trouble in getting 

 all the pieces and sticking them together, my head servant, a bright and 

 observant little Madrassee, excavated some of the broken pottery I had 

 seen in the rain-gully just referred to and pieced it together into a very 

 shapely bowl. After that, he dug over several square yards of the ad- 

 jacent ground, under my superintendence, and we unearthed a consi- 

 derable number of articles of pottery of various shapes and sizes, but all 

 broken more or less. They were buried only 5 or 6 inches below the 

 surface, and the place where they lay was Justin the regular track of the 

 village cattle to their drinking place and thus crossed every day 

 several times by large herds. The wonder was everything had not been 

 reduced to powder. 



The different vessels found are mostly of admirable shape, several 



