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These were probably intended for holding paddy or other 

 grains. I am unable to give their full sizes or capacity ; 

 but one piece,' which exhibits no sign of being very near the 

 top or bottom of the jar, measures two feet in length. This 

 jar must have been at least three feet high ; its inside dia- 

 meter at the mouth is 11*8 inches, and in the widest part 

 of the body it is 22f inches across. 



18. Portions of two plain earthenware flower-pots, 

 which are tall and unglazed. One is about 5^ inches wide 

 at the mouth. Both have deep horizontal corrugations in 

 their lower half. They may have been 7 or 8 inches high. 



19. A deep, coarse, red, unglazed drinking-cup with a 

 slight lip was (together with the next two articles) found 

 in cutting a distributing channel in the paddy field. The 

 cutting evidently passed through one of the poorest quar- 

 ters of the town, and there was hardly any trace of the 

 houses, except the thick layers of ashes from their fires and 

 fragments of broken pottery— few in number and coarse in 

 make. I am informed that cups similar in shape to 

 this one are still used by the poorer classes of Southern India 

 for drinking water and other household purposes. This cup 

 measures four inches in width at the mouth and 2*9 inches 

 in outside depth. It is quite inferior in quality to the 

 things found near the low-level sluice, and is undoubtedly 

 of much more recent manufacture. (See my remarks re- 

 specting the well lining — which was found near the same 

 site — "Houses," &c.) 



20. I can find no name for this article, nor meet with 

 any one who has seen a similiar one, or knows its use. It 

 resembles a rough primitive bottle as much as anything ; 

 but the bottom is rounded off, and there is a hole through 

 it. The top, too, has a broad horizontal lip of great thick- 

 ness. There is no neck, but the cylindrical body of the 

 bottle is compressed at the place, and is thus of less diame- 

 ter than it is lower down. The total height, as the article 

 is at present, is 3*5 inches, and the outside diameter is 2-2 

 inches. It is a coarse, rough piece of work, quite in keeping 

 with the foregoing. (See Appendix, Note 8.) 



21. A kind of chatty, apparently of a very different 

 shape from any others described, was represented by a frag- 

 ment found near the last two articles. A somewhat similar 



