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dynasty bowl with floral ornamentation. This was discovered 
just underneath the laterite block (18) which lies between the 
two uprights, Nos. 7 and 8. It was embedded right-side-up 
and, besides earth, contained a number of little water-worn 
quartz pebbles ; but whether these were placed there inten- 
tionally or not I am not quite certain, as similar stones 
occurred in the surrounding soil though not in such numbers 
as in the earth in the bowl. This piece of porcelain must have 
been whole; but got broken when the stone above it was 
shifted. It had evidently been placed in position and was 
not merely a piece of crockery which had been thrown away. 
The second object discovered was the greater part, in pieces, 
of a low and rather pot-bellied Chinese vessel with a wide 
mouth. This is not of porcelain; but of a fine grained 
yellowish clay. It is covered with a thin and flaky ivory-like 
glaze and has some underglaze patterns in rather dark blue. 
These designs are typicaily Chinese. 
The third object was discovered at the head of the tomb 
between stones 27 and 3.' This is a curiously carved piece of 
sandstone some 35 cm. in length. It was placed against the 
headstone (3) and on the top of a small squared block of 
laterite. It is difficult to say with certainty what the carved 
stone is meant to represent; but I am inclined to think that 
it is a winged phallus, a most sow paeaaens object to place in 
the tomb of a Mohamedan holy -m 
The discovery of this peculiar Hone much astonished the 
Malays who were working for me, and they were inclined to 
treat it with considerable reverence, so much so that when I, 
after some difficulty, pursuaded them to try to move it and 
one man had done so without result owing to its being firmly 
cemented to the headstone with that peculiar hardened earth 
which is found in nests of the termite, they announced that 
it “didn’t want to move,” and that they dared not make 
further attempt. Thus I had to do this, to their minds 
dangerous piece of work, myself. When I had moved the 
stone I found that there was a hole in the block of laterite 
on which it rested: this I probed and found that it extended 
downwards for about a foot, but what its purpose can have 
been I do not know. I was prevented from fully excavating 
and temporarily removing this stone by the superstitious fears 
of the Malays. 
There seem to be some slight traces of mounds and - 
ditches on the land enclosed in the reserve, and the lines of 
these, as far as they could be made out, may be traced in 
Mr. Wallace’s smaller scale plan. 
In addition to the remains already described, there is a 
curious grave with a laterite gravestone on a hill on the other 
1 The stone aay * in the plan is a loose block, evidently taken from 
elsewhere quite recent] 
