1879.] J. Cockburn—Wotes on Stone Implements. 137 
ders, and from what we see of the existing Andamanese. Nevertheless, I 
think we may fairly assume that stone continued to be employed for flakes 
and arrow-heads &c. long after iron was first introduced. The North 
American Indians long continued to use flint and jasper for arrow-heads when 
they were in the possession of abundance of iron tomahawks and knives, 
and even firearms. Catlin in his work on the North American Indians 
records how the Western hunter using a gun on horseback was unable to 
compete with the Red-skin using the bow and stone arrow in the chase of 
the Bison, and how this flint-tipped arrow was frequently driven right 
through the ponderous shoulders of the mighty beast, by the sinewy arm of 
the savage. 
There is no reason why a savage should not be able to fell a tree 
with a good big celt such as the fine specimen, 10 inches long shown in 
Plate XVI, (fig. G,) sharpened and handled. In fact, marks corresponding 
to such as would be made by a stone implement, have been discovered on 
ancient piles in the Lake-dwellings of Europe, clearly showing that such 
implements were used for cutting wood. 
Stone Implements from Banda. 
Abt’l Fazl, in the Ain-i-Akbari, describing the fortress of Chunar 
writes: “ Near this fort are a race of people who go quite naked, 
living in the wilds, and subsisting by the use of their bows and arrows. In 
those wilds are also elephants,” I have tracked the Sambar with the de- 
scendants of these savages, the modern Kols, not far from Kirwi, a great 
locality for celts. This brings me to the subject of the Banda implements. 
None of these celts have been found in their original situation by Europeans, 
and there seems a good deal of mystery attached to the circumstance of their 
extraordinary abundance in this tract, and the comparative rarity of such 
lithic remains elsewhere. I am of opinion, however, that they will be similar- 
ly found (on shrines and under trees) nearly as numerous in other parts of the 
Peninsular of India, inhabited by aboriginal races to within a recent period. 
Mr. H. P. LeMessurier was the first to draw attention to these remains 
in Bundelkhand, in P. A. S. B. for February, 1861. He was of opinion that 
they had all been found within a few miles of where their finders had de- 
posited them, an opinion I endorse for reasons to be stated further on. He 
also personally discovered a chert arrow-head of an European type, twenty- 
eight miles east of the Cachai Falls (Tons), a discovery of the greatest 
interest. 
In the Proceedings for June, 1862, J. A. S. B., XXXI, p. 823, Mr, W. 
Theobald, in a short paper, which continues to be the only memoir of import- 
ance on the subject, added considerably to our knowledge of these Banda 
