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there is no object in transporting waste to a distance from the factory. Usually such 
wastage is burned to make lime, shell lime being highly valued in India for white- 
washing and fine stucco work. 
(g) Hadagalli, 1518/ a, b & c. From made ground in the north bank of a nullah, 
at Huvina, near Hadagalli, 65 miles west of Bellary, came a single bangle fragment 
with 2 cowries ( Cypraea moneta). 
(h) Raidrug, 1552/1. A fragment of a bangle found on a village site south-east 
of the Tope, Raidrug. 
(i) Malyam, 1565/156—158. The mounds south of Malyam, Raidrug Taluq, 
yielded three fragments of chank bangles. From the same mounds came three frag- 
ments of scrapers made of Unio shell, together with a flake of specular iron, and an 
oval disc of earthy haematite having two faces and a side ground. Also much pottery 
which Mr. Foote says is probably neolithic ,” and a small neolithic celt and diorite 
cornerusher ; however, on p. 24,Vol. I, he refers to the Malyam pottery as of f< typical 
Iron Age.” Half of a hone (1557) °f slatey lime-stone, deeply worn by use, is a 
notable find at this site. With the bangle fragments, etc., was a marginal scute of 
the carapace of a species of Turtle. 
{k) Bellaguppa, 1574/4 — 11. From an old site north of Bellaguppa, came a 
fragment of a working section of chank shell, an entire Cypraea moneta , four fragments 
of scraper made of Unio shell, and three fragments of chank bangles; associated 
with these were a neolithic celt, a fragment of a cornerusher, some pottery and two 
metal fragments, one being possibly part of a bronze ring. 
Anantapur District. 
(a) Havaligi Hill, Gooty Taluq, 2088/2 — 9. Eight fragments of chank bangles 
without incised ornamentation were found on an old site on Havaligi Hill , an isolated 
granite hill in Gooty Taluq, 40 miles north-west of Anantapur. 
These were associated with a granite-mealing stone and several celts, hammers, 
flakers and cornerushers chiefly of basalt and diorite and all of neolithic facies, to- 
gether with a large number of chert and agate flake artifacts, many of which were 
serrated and biserrated. Mr. Bruce Foote ( loc . cit., Vol. I, p. 81) says, “ Exactly for 
what purpose they ” (these highly worked flakes) were made is problematic unless 
indeed they were used for working the patterns on chank shell bangles. Some are really 
delicate objects the preparation of which must have required much time and great 
care.” Numerous cores of both chert and agate were found here. [Note. — In con- 
nection with the above suggestion as to the probable use of the flakes it must be 
noted that from the same site came 2085, a fragment of iron slag, which indicates a 
knowledge of iron, a much more suitable material for chank working tools than chert 
or agate flakes, however carefully worked. Besides, the remains give no indication 
A this site having been the scene of a bangle factory, as all the fragments are worked 
and just the fragments which we see when bangles being broken accidentally or pur- 
posely are thrown aside by the wearers.] 
Bruce I'oote says (loc. cit.), “ There are many signs of continued habitation on 
