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danism) may have been responsible for the remains on Kedah 
Peak, yet there is no reason for ascribing them to a date 
after the advent of Mohamedanism, in fact rather the reverse, 
since the present Malay inhabitants of the country knew 
nothing of them until their discovery by Mr. Irby, though, 
when once discovered, they weré not backward in inventing 
stories to account for them 
Now providing that the people who built on Kedah Peak 
were the same as those who were responsible for the cutting 
of the granite slabs and the making of the bricks, they must 
have reached a stage in civilization considerably higher than 
that the present-day Malays. The probability is that, judg- 
ing by other remains which have been found in the country, 
they were by religion either Hindus or Buddhists, or both, for 
both Hinduism and Buddhism were, at one time, co-existent 
and co-operative in Java, and even in India, as they are at 
the present day in Bali, and to a small extent in Siam, where, 
though the people are more Buddhist than anything else, 
Brahmin priests are still employed in certain State cere- 
monies 
Unfortunately the objects found during excavation throw 
but little light on the date of the Kedah Peak remains. 
With the exception of some fragments of Chinese ee 
ail parts of a single plate, no pottery of any was 
encountered, nor were any objects of bronze, iron, or S othat 
metal. J am, furthermore, very doubtful whether the pieces 
of Chinese porcelain, blue-and-white ware, which I ascribe 
to a late period of the Ming dynasty, are contemporaneous 
with the stone and brick remains. One fragment of the 
plate was found directly under the peaty deposit and the 
others at no great depth, chiefly near Mr. Irby’s platform (A). 
The pieces may very possibly have worked down through 
the peat to the position in which they were found. Plates of 
the type and period are still in use among Malays in out-of- 
the-way parts of the country and specimens of this and of 
older wares are often brought to the towns by hawkers of 
curiosities, who have purchased them in the Malay Peninsula 
or Sumatra. 
An inspection of other ancient remains which may 
be discovered in Kedah is the most likely to lead to further 
knowledge about those on Kedah Peak, and, luckily, I 
have had an opportunity of visiting one other site. On 
my return from the Peak to Sungai Patani Mr. J. J. P. Davies 
of that place told me that an ancient stone statue and some 
brickwork had been found on Sungai Batu Estate, very 
kindly offering to drive us over the next day to see these 
objects of interest. Naturally I accepted his kind offer. 
On arriving at the estate we were shown a mound, consisting 
chiefly of laterite, whose present measurements are about 
thirty-nine by fifty-seven bok Its height was difficult to 
