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12. Part of an earthenware kettle, and several spouts 

 broken off others. It does not appear to be quite certain 

 whether water was boiled in these, or whether they held 

 drinking water, which, by means of the spout, could be poured 

 down the throat, according to the practice yet in vogue 

 among the lower classes. Similar articles are still made 

 in some part s of the Island. The spouts or nozzles were 

 straight, and in the form of a truncated cone, pierced with 

 a small cylindrical hole. They stood out at a right-angle 

 from the body of the kettle, at about half its height from 

 the bottom— a position which must have rendered the kettle 

 of little use, one would think.* 



13. A few very thin, flat-bottomed, nearly hemispherical, 

 unglazed, earthenware basins or drinking-cups. They were 

 from 2 J to 3 inches deep, and from 4*6 to 7*7 inches in 

 diameter at the mouth, with a thickness of *16 inch. Most 

 of them have the inside coated with the black varnish, but 

 one or two of a much rougher make are without it. 



14. A small flat-bottomed earthenware saucer, 4*80 

 inches wide, and one inch deep inside, which was met with 

 6 feet 5 inches below the surface of the ground in cutting a 

 distributing channel in the paddy field, is perhaps of nearly 

 the same age as the other articles found in the potters' 

 working-place. I am informed that articles of this shape 

 are still in use in some parts of India for holding curry, &c. 



15. The top of an unglazed, nearly black, imperfectly- 

 burnt water-goglet, which apparently was much like the 

 better class of goglets now in use. 



16. A small earthenware funnel, 3*5 inches across the 

 top. The shape is peculiar, the upper part of the funnel 

 being only 1*5 inch high, and probably 2 inches wide at 

 the bottom. Moulded inside this is another smaller tube 

 to act as the funnel neck. This doubtless projected consider- 

 ably below the tube of the upper part of the funnel, but it 

 has been broken off. 



17. Several very wide tall jars in fragments, very 

 roughly but strongly made, with a very thick solid lip. 



* We read in the Raja Ratnakari, of Kalinga Wijaya Bahu III. 

 (1235-1266)—" He also caused to be made for each of the said eighty 

 priests a bathing-tub of copper, a kettle for boiling water, and a vessel 

 for drinking water." (Upham's Sacred Books, Vol. II., p. 104.) 



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