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forms of European celts may be recognized in our Bundelkund ones, 

 though in the illustrated catalogue of Irish antiquities in the Dublin 

 Museum there is nothing figured like the stone hammer or mallet 

 found by me at Powari. The most probable use for which this article 

 was designed was probably pounding, but it is doubtful if it was not 

 furnished with a high celt-shaped handle, as just above the neck it 

 has suffered fracture. It is also fractured at the base, seemingly from 

 accidental usage, but enough remains of the smooth basal surface to 

 indicate its form beneath, and show the purposes to which it was 

 probably applied. The neck or shoulder is very smoothly finished, 

 but more specimens are required to indicate the normal shape of the 

 perfect instrument. Weight 1 lb. 9foz. Only one other blunt weapon 

 was found, which though perhaps used for similar purposes is much 

 lighter and very different in shape, which is much that of a common 

 native wrought iron pestle. It has a fiat top at one end and probably 

 a blunt edge at the other, though now much worn down. It was 

 never very . highly finished and weighs only 9£ ounces. One of the 

 most interesting celts in the collection is the very rude one which 

 exhibits scarcely any signs of manufacture, and might readily enough 

 be mistaken for an accidental fragment of rock. The natives, however, 

 about Karoi possessed sufficient archaeological acumen to perceive its 

 nature, and have adorned it with a daub of red paint as M.ahadeo, 

 together with others of greater pretensions to divine honours than it, 

 "Whether accidentally or not, it exhibits the insequilateral outline 

 observable in many finished celts, and which was for some cause or 

 other intentionally produced. The must curious point, however, 

 about it is the presence of a few notches in the edge, which, as the 

 stone is much decayed, may have originally been more conspicuous. 

 That they are notches there is no doubt, but to have served any 

 purpose, they must once have been much deeper, when they might 

 have acted as a rude saw, the only instance of such a tool in stone I 

 am accpiainted with. Of many score celts, this is the only one of this 

 rude type I have seen. The one marked from Debru ghat on the 

 Soane is perhaps as unfinished, but it may once have had a finer 

 edge, and its claims to be considered a celt are not conclusive. 



The small fragment from Sibdilla is interesting as showing how 

 certainly the merest portion of a celt may be recognised, as regarding 

 this fragment, small as it is, there can be no doubt ; and as proving 



