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one was also met with near the sluice. These chatties seem 

 to have been like an ordinary one with both lip and neck 

 taken off ; but both fragments are from the upper part of 

 the body, and it is not certain what was the actual shape. 

 The earthenware is rough and unglazed, but not thick, and 

 the smallest fragment is particularly thin. 



22. Although of a much later age than anything else 

 reported on, I include a small, unglazed earthenware 

 saucer-shaped lamp, with a chevron pattern in high relief 

 on the upper surface of the rim, in which is a recess to 

 receive the wick. This was found several feet above the older 

 remains at the low-level sluice, and only about 4 J feet below 

 the present ground-level. It was in a large chatty contain- 

 ing calcined bones, regarding which see below. ( u Mode of 

 Burial.''^ This lamp measures 3*9 inches across the inside 

 of the cup, and it is 1*2 inch deep inside, 



23. To these may be added a small basin-shaped 

 copper vessel, 5 inches in outside diameter, and 1*6 inches 

 high, probably used as a drinkiag-cup,* which was found 

 about 6 feet below the surface of the ground, in a garden in 

 the paddy field, when the proprietor was sinking a well. 

 It was covered with a "turtle-stone" — a small stone cut in 

 the shape of a turtle— and it contained a chank shell, in 

 which were a few pearls of very small value, and some inferior 

 amethysts, of which specimens handed to me by the finder 

 are included among the articles transmitted to the Museum. 

 It appears to have been buried to secure the safety of the 

 small treasures in it; but as it was 6 feet below the surface 

 it must nevertheless be of great age, possibly not of much 

 later date than the other oldest remains. The ground-level 

 would be raised at this spot much more slowly than near 

 the sluice, and any such treasures would not be buried at 

 a great depth. 



24. Several broken curry-stones, of gneiss or granite. 

 As these are in fragments, their dimensions are somewhat 

 uncertain. All stood on four short thick legs, and are well 

 made articles, quite superior to those now in use. 

 The upper stone was of the same material. All these and 



* " He also supplied them" (the priests) " with another kind of pot 

 for drinking water out of, made of copper." (Upham, loc. cit., Vol. 

 II., p. 111.) 



