204 F00TF: GEOLOGY OF THE BELLARY DISTRICT. 



west of Hira Haddagalli, and was the probable source which supplied 

 the material for the temple there just referred to. 



The bands of potstone occurring a mile or so west of Harappana- 

 halli town seem to be unworked, and so also 



Domestic utensils of the rather coarse mass of the stone forming the 

 potstone. & 



Arsapur hill, g\ miles south-south-east of Harap- 



panahalli, but on the low rise north of the hill are a number of pits 

 from which a quantity of greenish-grey steatite of good quality is 

 raised for conversion into bowls and platters of divers sizes and shapes 

 for various culinary and other domestic purposes. The industry was 

 only a small one at the time of my visit, and the workmen handi- 

 capped themselves by using very clumsy flat chisels instead of 

 gouges for excavating the vessels manufactured. A very large 

 number of the failures were clearly attributable to the clumsy shape 

 of the chisels used. 



Nobody was at work when I examined the pits, but at Somalapur, 

 4 miles south-west of Sandur, where a similar stone was worked, 

 the operator admitted the great superiority of a gouge of English 

 make, but said he could not procure one, and that the native smiths 

 could not make him one. The external shaping of the vessels was 

 done very neatly with a miniature adze. 



The potstone band east of Uchingi Drug was unworked as far as 

 my enquiries went. 



Of true crystalline or compact limestones, as already observed, 



very few examples were met with in Bellary 

 Crystalline limestones. .. , . J . . . . . , , 



district, and of those noticed none had been 



worked, though in each case a small quantity of nice-looking useful 

 marble could be produced. 



The cases referred to all occur in the Dharwar series. 

 The limestone to the south of Birrabi hill (see p. 80) in Haddagalli 

 taluq like that 6 miles west by south of Huvina 

 fou L n°d CalitieS WherG Haddagalli (p. 86), and like the outcrop at the 

 base of the Dharwar series 3 miles E, 5 N. of 

 Harappanahalli (p. 86) is grey to greenish-grey in colour. 

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