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shapes of these bricks varied much more than the others in 

 the different dagabas. The dagaba near the river, which 

 will be observed to have bricks of a much smaller size than 

 any of the other dagabas, is evidently a much more recent 

 structure. This ruin is only 16 feet in outside diameter, 

 having a hearti ng of ordinary soil or clay, enclosed by brick- 

 work laid in mud, and 2 feet 6 inches thick. These bricks 

 have a peculiar ringer mark on one side, also found on some 

 of those in the city, and they are probably of the same age 

 as the latter. The dagaba is half a mile south of the point 

 where the road to Wirawila crosses the M again a river. 



In an extension of one of the western high-level channels, 

 at a height which proves it to be of much later date than 

 most of the articles included in this report, part of the 

 earthenware lining intended for a well was discovered. It 

 consists of two sections of tubing, 10 inches and 105 inches 

 deep and 1 inch thick, having a diameter of 2 feet 6J- 

 inches inside. Similar ones are now used in the south and 

 east of the Island, I believe ; but the ancient ones differ 

 from them, I am told, in having a projecting lip or flange 

 at the top, on which the upper section could rest. There 

 was no well at the place where these were found. A stone, 

 on which two or three letters of about the 4th or 5th cen- 

 tury were cut, was met with at an inferior level, so that this 

 earthenware must be of somewhat later date than that. 



Household Utensils, fc. 

 Owing to the presence of an earthenware manufactory on 

 the site where the most extensive cuttings have been made, 

 the collection of household utensils forms a complete series, 

 though unfortunately nearly all the specimens are in small 

 fragments. As a rule, they do not follow the type of arti- 

 cles now made in Ceylon, except in the case of the 'chatties', 

 which are, in most respects, the same as those of modern 

 manufacture. The thickness and quality of all the earthen- 

 ware utensils vary much ; but those required for other than 

 rough usage are generally thin and excellently made. As 

 a piece of only one priest's begging-bowl, patraya, has been 

 discovered, it is evident that this pottery was almost all 

 intended for the use of members of the laity. The curry- 

 stones which have come to light were all found near the 

 potters' working place. Nothing of this kind has been met 



