PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



ASIATIC SOCIETY OF BENGAL 



for May, 1870. 



The ordinary general meeting of the Society was held on 

 Wednesday the 4th Instant at 9 p. m. 



T h. Oldham, Esq., LL. D., Vice President, in the chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Presentations were announced. 



1. From A. B 1 o o m f i e 1 d, Esq., Deputy Commissioner, Bala- 

 ghat, — eight pieces of silver and seventeen pieces of copper utensils, 

 found near the village Gungeria. 



The following letter, addressed to the Secretary and dated 7th 

 April, 1870, accompanied the donation. 



" A discovery of a considerable number of curious pieces of copper 

 and silver has recently been made near the village of Gungeria, 

 situated in the Mhow talook about 40 miles to the north of 

 Boorha, the head quarters of this district. It happened in this 

 way. 



" 2. On the morning of the 21st of January last, two boys tending 

 cattle, saw sticking up from the ground what appeared to them to 

 be an old piece of iron. They pulled it up and began grubbing 

 up the earth where they had found it, and within a few inches of 

 the surface came upon several other pieces. After this, a regular 

 excavation was commenced, and 424 pieces of copper, weighing al- 

 together 414£ seers (829Ibs.), and 102 pieces of silver, weighing 80£ 

 tolahs, were exhumed. 



" 3. The rough outlines** which I have sketched will give you 



* Some others have been added to these and given on pi. II. The numbers 

 in, or between, the figures shew the reduced length (vertical diameter of the 

 rounded pieces) of each specimen respectively ; the other measurements are 

 in each case reduced in proportion to the length. [Edit.] 



