2G8 Proceedings of the Asiatic Society. [Sept. 



All of these Celts were found among the Namsang Nagas, a 

 tribe to the S. E. of our frontier station of Typore. 



I read some time ago in the Society's Journal that in Burma 

 specimens of the sort marked 1 are considered spurious and dead, 

 and those of No. 3 authentic. Exactly the reverse opinion obtains 

 up here among the Nagas : No. 1 is a live stone ; No. 3 a dead. 



I have seen an exceedingly fine collection of Celts from the 

 Danish shell mounds ; they all seemed highly finished like the celts 

 found here, and I see no reason why these latter may not also 

 be considered genuine. 



I also hardly think it possible that the Nagas would manufacture 

 objects they hold in such awe merely for sale, especially as they 

 are so unwilling to part with the few specimens that they possess." 



Mr. Ball said — 



" The Assam Jade Celt to which Lt. Steel alludes was described 

 by Sir John Lubbock, in the Atlienwwm for June 22nd, 1867. 



"There is at present in the Geological Museum an implement 

 made of soft shale, which was brought from Assam by Mr. Medlicott. 

 (Proc. A. S. B., Sept. 1867, p. 152). 



" I take this as a favourable opportunity for making a few remarks 

 on stone implements which have been discovered in Singhbhurn. 

 In July, 1868, I exhibited to the Society some chert flakes, and 

 at the same time read a communication from Capt. Beeching of the 

 10th M. N. I. which described their mode of occurrence near 

 Chaibassa and Chukerdharpur in the Singhbhurn district. Since 

 that time, I have visited the localities and obtained what I believe 

 to be strong evidence of the human origin of the flakes. Those at 

 Chukerdharpur must have been transported at least three miles as 

 the nearest source of the material of which they are made is situa- 

 ted at that distance. It is difficult to believe from the nature of the 

 case, that the transporting force can have been other than human. 



" Besides these flakes which I found in many parts of Singh- 

 bhurn, I have been fortunate in discovering a beautifully made Celt, 

 which I now exhibit, in another part of Chota-Nagpur. It lay on 

 the surface at the foot of a small hill near the village of Buradih, 

 S. E. of Gomaria in Iamar. It is, I think, the best-formed weapon 

 yet obtained in S. \V. or Lower Bengal.' 7 



