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of hydrochloric acid. These objects were found at depths of 
from two to two-and-a-half feet 
the two dressed stones, which I have referred to 
above, one, which shows marks ‘of ptimary flaking on either 
side, appears to be of some fine-grained sedimentary rock of 
a brownish colour; the material of the other, of which the 
chipping is very rude, is a dark and rather coarse stone with 
a crystalline structure. 
The sharpening stone is of particular interest. It was 
found:in another part of the same rock-shelter where we 
obtained the pieces of polished stone, but at a depth of only 
about a foot-and-a-ha 
This object is 17 cms. in length, is four-sided, and tapers 
to a point at one end. Its sides are channelled longitudinally 
as if small chisels or gouge-like implements had been continu- 
ally rubbed or sharpend on them. I am inclined to think 
that this stone may have been used for grinding and polishing 
small stone implements, similar to the two which we obtained 
at Gunong Sennyum. Ido not know what the material of 
the specimen is. Its colour is a light yellow-ochre, and its 
grain very fine. I thought at first that it was a broken piece 
of a stalactite, but I find that it resists the action of acid. 
Three small notches have been cut in one of its edges near its 
larger = 
ssing now to the pottery, some of this is similar to 
the res tentet ware from Gunong Sennyum, but there are 
also fragments decorated with parallel lines, and a few 
which have a smooth surface. The colours of the ware are 
red, brown and black. No glazed: pottery was encountered, 
and no ware of any sort at a greater depth than two feet. 
One piece of ruddle was found in the rock-shelters. A 
ebble, worn to a smooth surface at one end, appears to have 
been used for rubbing down this pigment, but it is just 
possible, from its shape, that acave-dweller might have begun 
to make it into a small chisel-like implement, and finally 
rejected it as unsuitable. As, however, slight traces of red 
pigment are still observable on the stone, this does not seem 
likely 
Bones of any kind were rather rare in the Kota Tongkat 
rock-shelters, those that we did find usually having been 
broken into small pieces. A tooth of a b&rok-monkey (M acacus 
nemestrinus), bored for suspension from a cord, was ered 
within six inches of the surface in the layer of ashes. 
The spiral fresh-water shells (Melania sp.), in most cases, 
had had their topmost whorls broken away to facilitate the 
extraction of their contents. ‘Those from the caves at Gunong 
Se 
It is as yet premature to be at all dogmatic with regard 
to the age of objects which have been found in the caves and 
rock-shelters of the Malay Peninsula; but a few observations 
