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With the exception of a few unimportant potsherds the only other object of im- 
portance found at this site was a small iron knife with tang. No stone implements 
were discovered, and no information is given as to the precise conditions under which 
any of the exhibits were found ; presumably they lay on the surface of the ground 
examined. 
(d) Sonnaria. — Fragments of two chank bangles of simple pattern apparently 
found on the ground surface. Fig. 3623, pi. xvi, shows the simple semi-cylindrical 
pattern of one fragment. A chert scraper comes from the same locality. 
(e) Kodinar. — On the surface of Mr. Foote’s camping ground were found several 
sawn portions of chank shell , two being shoulder slices such as are found in the wastage 
from a bangle workshop. 
(/) Valabhipur (the modern Walah).— From the ruins of the ancient city Mr. 
Foote obtained a large and most interesting series of chank-bangle fragments, 62 in 
number, whereof ten of the most noteworthy are reproduced on pi. xvi under 
No. 3493. With them were a smaller number (seven) of sawn working sections. A 
few marine shells ( Nerita , Nassa, Ostrea, and Conus) were also found among the ruins. 
In Gujarat : — 
( a ) Sigam, on north bank of the Heran River. — Five weathered sawn working 
sections of chanks are represented in the collection from this site. No finished remains 
of bangles were seen. The site yielded a variety of neolithic flakes and cores and 
two sandstone hammers or pestles. No indication is given of the precise mode of 
occurrence, but I conclude they were all surface finds. 
( b ) Kamrej', 12 miles north-east of Surat. — The summit of a small islet in the 
Tapti river at this place yielded three sawn shoulder slices (workshop waste) of chank 
shells and a single fragment of finished bangle. The latter is remarkable for the pecu- 
liarity and elegance of its pattern, a broad and closely worked zig-zag groove such as I 
have never seen either among ancient bangle fragments or on any of the present-day 
productions of Bengal. It is figured as No. 3066-6 on pi. xvi. 
With these chank remains were two fragments of sandstone hammers. 
This site is notable as being on an islet in the Tapti river protected against 
assault by steep and almost inaccessible sides — a place very defensible and therefore 
an ideal place for the settlement of craftsmen. 
(c) Mahuri, in Vijapur Taluq. — From t( an old site at the head of the gully 
system which cuts deep into the alluvium of the Saberamati ’ ’ at this place, a series of 
working sections and waste pieces of chank shell were found sufficiently numerous and 
varied to convince me, after examination of the fragments, that a bangle workshop 
undoubtedly existed here at a remote period. The presence of sawn waste associated 
with sawn working sections is conclusive. 
Of completed bangles the remains found were few (eight are shown in the collec- 
tion), but of these, three are of special interest on account of the elaboration of orna- 
ment exhibited. Two of these fragments are of broad bangles richly carved in 
patterns (fig. 3310-6 -7, pi. xvi) very closely approximate, if indeed not identical, with 
