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J. Wood-Mason— JVeo?i77uc Gelt from Jaslqmr. [No. 2, 1889.] 



XIV. — Notice of a NeolUh-ic Celt from Jashpur in the Gliota Nagpur 

 District. — By J. "Wood-Mason, Superintendent of the Indian Museum, 

 and Professor of Oomparative_ Anatomy in the Medical College of 

 Bengal, Calcutta. 



(With Plate XV.) 

 An interesting stone implement of Neolithic age has recently been 

 found, in lat. 22° 58' N., loug. 83° 41' E., about one mile to the east of 

 Bagicha, a village of the Tappa Kakea zomiudary in the Jashpnr State 

 situated 30 miles W. N. W. of Jashpur and 31 miles E. S. E. of Bisram- 

 pur, in the Oliota Nagpur District ; it was obtained by the zemindar 

 himself, who very kindly gave it up to Laid Hira Lai, an assistant in the 

 Geological Survey of India, by whom it has been presented to the Indian 

 Museum. 



When received by me it was still covered with the rod clayey earth 

 of the spot in which it had been found. 



It is a rather narrow double-edged celt with one face nearly level 

 longitudinally and but slightly convex transversely, the other face 

 longitudinally rather more strongly arched than the broader of the 

 cutting edges, and the two sides plane ; and when viewed from either 

 side somewhat resemble a strung bow in outline. 



It measures 163 mm. in extreme length, by 41'25 in breadth at tho 

 bi'oader cutting edge, which is regularly arched, and 25'76 at the 

 narrower cutting edge, which is irregularly arched, by 25'0 in extreme 

 thickness in the middle ; so that it is just about four times as long as 

 it is broad at the broader catting edge, whence it gradually tapeis 

 to its Jiarrower cutting edge, which is equal in breadth to the extreme 

 thickness of the stone. 



It is weathered to a pale clay-brown colour. 



The rock of which it is made appears to be a trap. 



The accompanying plate renders a more detailed dcsci'iption un- 

 necessary. 



