6 J. H. Rivett-Carnace—Prehistorie 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 “ palstave” 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 
Trish 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. 1, 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 4 inches. 
No. 8 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 
