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sumably a caclie rather tlian a burying place. A very fine cliert flake, 

 with an excellent core of the same material, was found at Paspalla, a 

 Tillage some 9 miles west of Patpad. 



§ 8. I come now to the most interesting and important part of my 

 subject, the occurrence of numerous Neolithic settlements in the Bellary- 

 Anantapur country, to which I proceeded at the end of 1884 to take up 

 the geological survey of that region. Ever since my expeditions with 

 Mr. Eraser to the North Hill and the Peacock Hill, I had been longing to 

 revisit that quarter, and my desire had been much increased by my great 

 find at Patpad. 



I was most anxious also to settle if possible the real nature of the 

 great cinder-mound at Budikanava which 1 have already referred to 

 above. 



I revisited the North-hill at Bellary with much success and initiat- 

 ed a friend, Mr. Justin Boys, the Agent of the Madras Branch Bank at 

 Bellary, into the delights of celt-hunting, which he has since followed 

 up with a very satisfactory result, namely, the discovery that the north 

 and east sides of the Bellary Fort Hill were also at one time inhabited 

 by the Stone-folk. 



At the first possible opportunity, I revisited the Peacock Hill, or 

 Kapgallu as it is called by the country people. Mr. Fraser had taken 

 me up and about the southern side of Kapgal, and we had secured but a 

 small quantity of implements, mostly celts and chisels, but noticed no 

 special signs of manufacture. On my second visit, I explored the 

 whole hill, and, on the northern side, near the summit, found abundant 

 traces of the manufacture of implements and of the residence of the 

 manufacturers. Kapgal had evidently been a settlement of the Stone- 

 folk for a considerable period and an important centre of celt manufac- 

 ture. The traces of residence were very numerous in the shape of 

 small terraces revetted with rough stone walls, great accumulations of 

 made ground full of ashes and broken pottery and containing many im- 

 plements of all sorts, a large proportion of them damaged, many so 

 much so that they had evidently been rejected as useless. Bones of 

 bullocks, chiefly broken, occur pretty numerously and especially in the 

 ashy parts of the made ground. Other traces of residence were small 

 tanks made by damming up the little stream which drained the northern 

 side of the ridge. Large blocks of the local granite-gneiss had been 

 hollowed for some purpose or other and so well worn by use, or purpose- 

 ly fine-tooled, that their inner surface was all but polished. A number 

 of these had evidently stood close to the structures that I assume to 

 have been tanks. Some still remain there as if ready for use, but many 

 have been broken, and their fragments lie close by. These block" 



