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not be out of place to attempt some comparison between the 
objects found at Gunong Pondok and those obtained from 
other caves and shelters, to note any points of outstanding 
interest with regard to them and also to attempt to date 
them approximately. None of the locally-made objects 
from Gunong Pondok with the exception of the indented 
pounding-stones which I have described above, are of 
types new to us. 
Sea shells have already been recorded from a rock-shel- 
ter at Batu Kurau and at Ipoh, though shells of Voluta had 
not been encountered previously. 
Ruddle was present in two caves in Pahang (at Gunong 
Sennyum and near Jerantut), at Lenggong (Perak) and 
probably at Gunong Cheroh neat Ipoh—judging by the 
staining of certain grinding-stones, while these articles and 
grinding-slabs have been recorded previously from Gunong 
Cheroh and Lenggong, flakes from the two above mentioned 
sites in Pahang, and from Lenggong, dressed (chipped) stones 
from Lenggong and from the Pahang caves, polished stone 
implements from Gunong Cheroh, the Pahang caves and 
Batu Kurau and cord-marked pottery from Pahang and 
Lenggong. I have also noted previously the association 
of iron implements with those of polished stone in the 
case of the Batu Kurau shelter. 
The association of iron and stone implements would 
incline one to believe that the deposits are comparatively 
recent, while the finding of a coin at a depth of seven 
teet places all remains above this level as being not older 
than the date of this piece of money (between 1786 and 
1791. A.D.). 
The fragments of Chinese porcelain are also important 
witnesses with regard to age, for, though ancient pottery, 
such asis still in use among the Malays, does not indicate 
that objects found in association with it are of the same 
period, it does at any rate show that such objects cannot be 
ot greater age. Now I am fairly certain that none of the 
porcelain from Gunong Pondok is earlier than the Sung 
dynasty (960-1259 A.D.) and probably not earlier than the 
Ming dynasty (1368-1643 A.D.). If this is so, none of the 
objects associated with it cau be older than the earliest of 
these dates. 
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