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[I do not pretend to be able to give a very satisfactory 
explanation of the occurrence of stone implements at Gunong 
Kurau in association with iron tools, unless the iron age 
followed directly that of stone, so that stone and iron imple- 
ments were in use at the same time. 
Let us now consider stones found in the cave or shelter- 
floors which show signs of having been roughly dressed to defi- 
nite shapes by means of flaking. I cannot find any of these 
among Mr. Wray’s collections from Gunong Cheroh—now in 
the Perak Museum—but there are examples from the Lenggong, 
Gunong Sennyum and Kota Tongkat, though none from 
Gunong Kurau. Now with regard to objects of this kind from 
the two localities in Pahang it is not particularly difficult to 
imagine that they are uncompleted stone axe-heads which 
were rejected during manufacture owing to the stone breaking 
in an unsuitable manner, or for some other reason. The 
dressed stones from Lenggong, however, seem to be of a more 
primitive type, and it is not easy to see, if they are uncom- 
pleted implements, into what ordinary style of neolithic-type 
axe-head they were to be made. 
Passing now to the pottery from Gunong Sennyum and 
from Kota Tongkat: from both localities we have ware which 
has been decorated by pressing a cord against its surface 
before the clay hardened, and, on making a re-examination of 
some of the fragments of rough pottery from Lenggong, I 
find that they also show cross-hatching which has been pro- 
duced by this method, the marks left by the twist of the cord 
being plainly visible. Perak Malay women at the present 
day, I am told by natives of that State, sometimes make 
patterns on clay water-vessels by drawing a thread across 
them while the material is still wet, and we have at least two 
vessels in the Perak Museum which have been treated in this 
manner. Drawing a thread over a wet clay, however, merely 
leaves cuts with somewhat rounded edges, which do not show 
the twist of thecord. To reproduce these a piece of cord must 
be pressed against the surface of the vessel. I have not as 
yet been able to obtain any evidence that pressure with a 
cord is still employed by the Malays for marking fase but 
this does not necessarily mean to say that it is no 
If, as seems possible, the deposits from the eae 
area are of earlier date than those from Gunong Sennyum and 
Kota Tongkat, what are we to think of the former in relation 
to those of Gunong Cheroh? In this locality the deposits 
containing relics of the cave-dwellers reached in some places 
a total depth of twelve feet, signs being present that they 
had once been considerably dee eeper. for Mr. Wray says that | 
the floor of the cave at the time of his visit was ‘‘ some six to 
eight feet lower than it had been at a previous period, this 
being clearly ‘‘ shown by masses of shell and bone conglomer- 
ate sticking on to the back wall at that height above the 
