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the middle and eastern parts of the hill, especially the latter, in the shape of mealing 
places, mostly small and deepish ovals ; the shallower hollows are of much larger 
size superficially.” 
( b ) Tadpatri Railway Station, 2106 — a. The only other find of chank bangle 
remains was one of a plain unornamented bangle washed out of made ground, north 
of Tadpatri Railway Station; at the same place were found cores of red jasper and of 
chert and a fragment of steatite vessel showing signs of having been turned on a 
lathe. All these remains are classed as neolithic by Mr. Bruce Foote. 
Cuddapah. 
(a) Mundlavaripalli on the Papaghni River. No. 2203. A large number (29) of 
fragments of chank bangles from left bank of Papaghni River, at Mundlavaripalli, 
Kadiri Taluq. Three exhibit carved patterns such as may be made by a saw or a 
file, the others without incised carving. 
With them were associated a large and remarkable series of fragments of old pot- 
tery to which Mr. Bruce Foote assigns a neolithic origin (loc. cit ., Vol. I, p. 23). No 
particulars are given as to the depth below the surface at which these remains were 
found, or whether they were found loose on the surface. 
Kurnul District. 
{a) Bastipad on the Hindri River. No. 2258. A most important find was made 
by Mr. Bruce Foote in 1888, on the left bank of the Hindri, opposite the village 
of Bastipad, of large numbers of interesting potsherds, fragments of finished and 
unfinished chank bangles, and over a score of pieces of chank shells of exactly the 
same character as those now produced in the cutting up of chanks in Dacca bangle 
workshops. A piece of iron slag and another of specular iron were also produced by 
the same site, together with a broken celt and an oblong hone both made of diorite, 
and some neolithic chert flakes. 
These remains appear to have been collected from the surface of ploughed fields 
as Mr. Bruce Foote says the pottery was mostly much broken up by the ploughing 
of the fields which had come to occupy the old site in which they had been buried. 
This site must have been a populous village in olden times to judge from the quan- 
tities of potsherds found, and there can be no doubt that one of the industries of 
this ancient village was that of chank bangle manufacture. The waste pieces and 
the ring sections cut from the shell are precisely what we meet with in Bengal work- 
shops at the present day. The striations made by the slicing saw are still clearly to 
be discerned, and their regularity and the straightness of the cut are the same as those 
produced by the big semilunar fine-toothed saw now in use in Dacca factories for this 
purpose. The presence of the hone and the two pieces of iron have a direct bearing 
on this matter. The evidence taken altogether disproves completely to my mind , 
the possibility that the bangle fragments found here and in other localities by 
Mr. Bruce Foote were produced by neolithic people using finely serrated chert or 
