6 J. H. Rivett-Carnac — Prehistoric Remains [No. 1, 



Nos. 1, 2 are pieces of iron, thickly encrusted with, lime and rust, 

 found by Mr. Hanna in the group of barrows near the Junapani stream, 

 to which allusion has already been made. The damp situation seriously 

 affected these specimens, and they are not in such a good state of 

 preservation as the other remains found in the vicinity. They offer hardly 

 any attraction to the magnet. 



No. 2 was also found by Mr. Hanna in the same group. It has suffer- 

 ed severely from rust, but the form is intact. It resembles a " spud," 

 but it is not improbably a "j)alstave" of which many specimens have been 

 found in similar tombs in Scandinavia and in Great Britain. It has no 

 "eye" through which to loop the thong by which palstaves are supposed 

 to have been attached to a wooden handle. But I find that, in some of the 

 Irish specimens also, these eyes are wanting, (see figure 275, No. 510, page 

 384, Vol. I, of a Descriptive Catalogue of the Antiquities of the Museum 

 of the Royal Irish Academy, by Sir W. Wilde, Dublin, 1863). The palstave 

 found at Junapani exactly resembles this specimen. 



Similar implements have been found by Col. Glasfurd in tumuli in the 

 Godavery district, and at page 358, Vol. XXIV, of the Transactions of the 

 Royal Irish Academy, in a paper by Col. Meadows Taylor, c. s. I., de- 

 scribing " The Cairns, Cromlechs, Kistvaens and other Celtic, Druidical or 

 Scythian monuments in the Dekhan," will be found figured a similar imple- 

 ment discovered in one of the tumuli of the Hyderabad country. I may 

 mention here incidentally, that Col. Sladen, who made an expedition from 

 Mandalay to the western borders of China, mentioned to me, that imple- 

 ments similar to these, but having in addition the " eye" so well known 

 in the palstaves of Europe, were discovered by him on his travels. ' 

 Length of specimen 4f inches. 



No. 3 is a knife or dagger, much corroded, found by Mr. Hanna in 

 the same group. The guard at the hilt is perfect on one side, on the other 

 side the rust has flaked off, taking with it the iron of the guard. Length 

 5| inches. 



No. 4 is a smaller specimen of a hatchet or battle-axe, similar to the 

 one found by Col. Pearse, and resembling Nos. 5, 11 described below. 

 In these specimens the bands are wanting. It will be seen that the rust 

 is coming off: the hatchet in great flakes and the bands have most probably 

 corroded. Length 6 inches ; breadth 2 inches. 



No. 5 is the best specimen of the battle-axe or hatchet that has yet 

 been discovered. It was found by Mr. Henry Dangerfield in one of the out- 

 lying groups of barrows near Junapani. The bands, with which the axe 

 was fastened on to the wooden handle, are in perfect preservation. Length 

 10 inches. 



This iron axe bears a remarkable resemblance in shape to the copper 



