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prehension the existence of a small brown earthenware tuyere which I 

 found on the east side the Fort Hill at Bellary among a large quantity 

 of broken pottery. This tuyere is now in my collection. 



Of special interest are two implements found respectively by my 

 friends Messrs. Boys and Cardew, the first a ring-stone found on Bellary 

 Fort Hill, the second a wooden comb excavated from a thick bed of pure 

 white ash in the Guntakal settlement. 



The ring-stone, of which Mr. Boys found one half, was a very large 

 one of rather oval shape externally, but the well- drilled central hole is 

 perfectly circular. 



A very fine collection of celts in various stages of manufacture 

 and of other implements was made by another friend, Mr. Henry Grom- 

 pertz. Deputy Superintendent, Madras Revenue Survey, on the north 

 side of the Bellary Fort Hill, and on the Sangankal hills between the 

 Bellary hills and Kapgul Hill. 



Up to the present, no celt has been found in South India which has 

 been drilled for the insertion of a handle, as were many European-made 

 axes and hammer-heads. A very fine celt (in my collection) which was 

 found on the Shevaroy hills shows, however, the commencement of a drill- 

 hole on each of the broad sides. These holes are exactly opposite each 

 other and an inch or more from the middle towards the cutting edge of 

 the implement. The Celt-folk were, however, well acquainted with the 

 art of drilling small objects in hard stone, as is shown by the well executed 

 perforations of the carnelian and quartzite beads already mentioned. 



A specimen (also in my collection) from one of the Bellary settle- 

 ments shows the general outline of a typical celt, but the broad end has 

 been left quite thick instead of being ground to an edge, while the 

 pointed end has been ground to a narrow chisel edge transverse in 

 direction to that which should have been the broad cutting edge. There 

 are no signs of use on this specimen, which, so far as I know, is quite 

 unique ; and I am unable to imagine for what special purpose it may 

 have been prepared. 



A few specimens of whetstones, or hones, have been found in the 

 Bellary settlements, which may perhaps have been used to give the last 

 final edge to specially choice celts. I have two such in my collection 

 which show strong marks of use. The marks are rather semicircular, 

 and just such as would be produced by whetting the rather rounded 

 edge of a celt. Mr. H. Gompertz found such a stone of rather flat 

 shape lying on a piece of rock under a good rock shelter on the north 

 side of Bellary Fort Hill. On the whetstone lay a small celt exactly 

 as if it had been put down suddenly and never taken up again by the 

 workman. 



