66 okhamandal marine zoology— part ii 



Gujarat and Kathiawar. 



Mr. Bruce Foote's labours prove that tlie custom of using chank bangles was widely 

 spread and tbat cbank-bangle factories were numerous in these two provinces in 

 ancient times. 



The finds which he records are as follows : — 



In Kathiawar : — 



{a) Damnagar, Amreli Prant. In the fields (presumably upon the surface) north 

 of the camping tope at this town a great number of chank bangles in a fragmentary 

 condition were found and of these 41 pieces are represented in the Museum collection. 

 Three working fragments were also found at the same place, together with a couple of 

 cowries, and a Trochus shell groimd upon three sides. Associated were such neohths 

 as a basalt corncrusher, a bloodstone hammer and chert and agate cores. 



(6) Babapur. At this village situated 13 miles westward of Amreh, the alluviiim 

 of the left bank of the Shitranji river yielded a large and important series of neohthic 

 chert flakes, scrapers, shngstones, and corfes in association with 13 fragments of finished 

 chank bangles, together with two working fragments and part of the columella of a 

 chank. Several of the flint flakes are worked upon one or both edges, and one of the 

 bangle fragments exhibits a chaste design executed with considerable dehcacy. The 

 other bangles are of plain and crude design. 



(c) AmbavalH. Seventy-one fragments of broken bangles from an old site at this 

 place are represented in the Museum collection (Nos. 3622-1 to 65 and 81 to 89). Of 

 these the greater number are ornamented by pattern grooving and many show an 

 elaboration of design as great as those now manufactured in Bengal. The designs in 

 many instances are precisely the same as those in vogue to-day. 



Associated with these bangle fragments were numerous portions of sawn sections 

 of chank-shells, constituting the rough working material required by the bangle carver ; 

 33 fragments are shown (Nos. 3622-63 to 65 and 90 to 119). 



With the exception of a few unimportant potsherds the only other object of 

 importance found at this site was a small iron knife with tang. No stone implements 

 were discovered, and no information is given as to the precise conditions under which 

 any of the exhibits were found ; presumably they lay on the surface of the ground 

 examined. 



{d) Sonnaria. Fragments of two chank bangles of simple pattern apparently 

 found on the ground surface. A chert scraper comes from the same locality, 



(e) Kodinar. On the surface of Mr. Foote's camping ground were found several 

 sawn portions of chank- shell, two being shoulder slices such as are found in the wastage 

 from a bangle workshop. 



(/) Valabhipur (the modern Walah). From the ruins of the ancient city Mr. Foote 



