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present in numbers, but were not so common as at Lenggong, 
where the earth was full of splinters of bone. Most of the 
bones had been broken to obtain the marrow 
e so far been able to distinguish bones or teeth of 
the pig-tailed macaque, crab-eating macaque, pig, bamboo- 
rat, porcupine, and soft-turtle. Large numbers of shells were 
found, nearly all of a species of Melania (kechor) which is 
common in the Kurau River. All these had the topmost 
whorls knocked off. There were also obtained several valves 
of a species of cockle (Arca sp.?) one of which was burnt, 
and six shells of marine gasteropods comprising the genera 
Phasianella, Natica, Marginella and Cyprea. .Four of these 
were bored for suspension, while the only Cyprea a ‘‘ money 
cowrie”’ had its ventral surface ground away until it also could 
be hung from a cord. A tooth of a bvok-monkey (?) had, as I 
found in cleaning up the specimens, also been perforated in a 
similar manner to the shells. 
Pieces of pottery were common throughout, the majority 
being of rough black or brown ware, but we also found a fair 
number of fragments of Chinese porcelain, chiefly ‘‘ blue-and- 
white’’ and ‘‘ crackle.’”’ These, when examined by an expert, 
will, apart from other objects, be of some importance in ascer- 
taining the date of the other specimens. 
In addition we discovered a considerable number of iron 
objects, namely four blades of the kind of knife which is known 
to the Malays as pisau raut, two shoulderless adze-blades 
of very primitive type, a chopper-blade of the variety which 
the Malays call golok, and two rectangular pieces, one of which 
is probably the lower part of an adze-blade. 
Another find was an old East India Company’ s coin of the 
kind which the Malays call duit ayam from the fact that a figure 
of acock is depicted onitsface. This bore the Mohamedan date 
1247 ; therefore, if we may judge by it, most of the other speci- 
mens must be under ninety years old. There is just a possi- 
bility that the coin, being small, may have fallen down un- 
noticed from the surface, as it was picked up when loose earth 
was being ‘‘changkoled’”’ out of the excavation, but I have 
no reason to think that this was the case. 
We now come to the most puzzling objects met with in 
the course of 6ur excavations. These were two neolithic-type 
stone implements, such as are often turned up by Malays 
when working in their rice fields. One of them was found 
by a coolie lying on the surface at the barren end of the ter- 
race ; it is much weathered or water-worn and is partly coated 
with stalagmitic matter. The other specimen was uncovered 
at a depth of 8 inches from the surface and is fairly well pre- 
served. What are we to make of these? The implement from 
the surface may possibly be dismissed as having been brought 
to the place at a date later than that of the deposits, but the 
second specimen cannot be treated in this manner. We must 
