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POTTERY. 



Of the specimens of pottery, one, a small red cup, three and a half 

 inches in diameter, and two and a half inches in depth, is very perfect, 

 fig. 10. Two other vessels, figs. 10, 11, both tolerably perfect, are of an 

 hour-glass shape, and were, I conceive, the bodies of small hand drums, 

 parchment or skin being fastened on the ends. The upper portion being 

 larger in diameter than the lower would give a difference of sound to 

 each end of the drum ; and the hour glass shape for small hand drums 

 of wood or copper is still in use in India. Another entire vessel is a 

 cup, with a black glaze upon it, fig. 12. It is 4f inches in diameter, and 

 4 § in depth, narrowing to the bottom, which is if in. in diameter. There 

 are also two pieces of thick heavy pottery, which must have been parts of 

 large vessels. One of these is a portion of the lip or upper edge of the 

 vessel, which turns outward — the other also of a lip which turns inward. 

 The small round cup may have been made by hand ; but there are in- 

 dications of the other vessels having been turned on a wheel which can- 

 not be mistaken. 



HUMAN AND ANIMAL REMAINS. 



Of the bones transmitted to me, which were found in the Hyat 

 Nugger Cairn, I am not competent to speak. Some are evidently hu- 

 man ; and one elbow joint, apparently that of a woman, is very perfect. 

 Others are those of animals ; and perhaps some of the scientific anato- 

 mists of the Academy may be disposed to examine and report upon 

 them all. It is at least certain that the cairn belonged to that section 

 of the ancient race which buried their dead, as there were no traces of 

 cremation in this cairn. It is not from a mere motive of curiosity that I 

 propose scientific examination of the bones ; for it has become a very im- 

 portant point, in determining the identity of the Indian Cairn construc- 

 tors with those of Great Britain and of Europe to establish the fact of hu- 

 man sacrifice having accompanied interments. This will form an especial 

 point in any future explorations with which I may be assisted by my 

 Indian friends, and will be of the utmost interest in regard to those 

 very unmistakeable evidences of human sacrifice which were brought 

 to light by the Rev. W. Greenwell, of Durham, in the excavation of the 

 Scamridge Barrow, Yorkshire, and described in the " Proceedings of the 

 -Archaeological Institute," No. 86, of 1865, which were corroborated by 

 discoveries of a similar character, by Dr. Thurnam, of Devizes, in 

 Wiltshire Barrows ; and when I compare the results attained by these 

 gentlemen with my own experience in opening the cairns at Jewurgi 

 and Andola, in the district of Shorapoor, it is impossible not to be struck 

 with the more than mere coincidence — the absolute identity of the 

 character of human sacrifice in localities so widely separated as York- 

 shire and the Dekhan. 



I am glad to observe that considerable interest has been excited in 

 India on this subject; and any means of identification between the re- 

 mains of Cairn races in England and India will go far to connect both 

 with the dispersion of the nomadic Aryan race, which is already esta- 



