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at these spots was apparent in my mind ; for, as I sat there on one of the 

 knobs of gneiss looking at the scattered fragments and stone hatchets, or 

 spear heads (whatever their use may have been), I could not help think- 

 ing that the Implements might have been manufactured beside the groups 

 of rocks. 



There were not nearly so many Implements in this locality as we found 

 and saw in the supposed site of manufacture in the Trivellore Taluq, but 

 there was likewise not the same enormous amount of suitable material ; 

 and when the two regions are compared my Narnaverum area becomes a 

 very insignificant place of work. However, in comparison with other 



f>laces where I have found stone weapons, with the exception of ihe 

 ocality to be described next, the number found at this little area of denu- 

 dation is large. 



Unfortunately, I found no specimens in situ, i. e., embedded in the 

 lateritic gravel and breccia from which I suppose them to have been 

 derived ; even in alluvial deposits which looked much more promising, 

 we had to dig away some yards of a river bank before our implement was 

 found, while t lie chances of finding anything among the already broken 

 ground are very variable. For instance, I have examined the liti le gullies 

 along a river bank for more than a mile without success ; when suddenly 

 in the bottom of a rift in the bai;k I found a little gem of a weapon, and 

 cl<>se by five large implements, all of the same shape, which had evidently 

 fallen out of a layer of shingle just above. 



It cannot at present be >aid whether the weapons lying about over 

 thedenud- d area at Loc. 3 were originally enclosed in the laterite which 

 once extended continuously over the depression, or whether tney hadbeen 

 manufactured subsequent to the formation of the hollow. The ferruginous 

 coloring of 'he implements is a slight indication in favor of their having 

 been enclosed in the laterite, as is also the fact of their being only as yet 

 found lying on this denuded area; though, indeed this last condition may 

 be as plausibly used to show that they are newer than the laterite and 

 that the scoured-out patch of ground was a most convenient place for 

 manufacture as the stones were at hand, having been worked or woru out 

 of the laterite. 



If stone weapons should hereafter be found enclosed in the lateritic 

 deposit it would then in all probability turn out that they are more 

 ancient even thm those found in the d i if t at Trivellore, because the cor- 

 responding drift deposit in the Narnaveram valley is newer than the 

 lateritic breccia on Luc. 3. 



B. Kirkumbady area. 



The old Kirkumbady Fort (Loc. 4) on the Madras N. W. Line of 

 Railway may be taken as a land-mark for this area. 



Some coarse lateritic road material was being dug up close to the 

 railway, where it passes by the fort, during my short stay in that neigh- 

 bourhood in October 1863 ; and amongst the heaps of this material were 

 two rough stone implements one of which was very large and of a rude 

 axe-head fotm. It was about 12 inches long and 4 or 5 inches wide at t he 

 square edge. The finning of these two specimens l^d me to look for others 

 in the neighbourhood, but it was not until the beginning of this year that 

 I succeeded in finding several of the pointed oval form. These wete lying 

 scattered at intervals over the rising ground, to the west of the line of 

 rails, on each side of the stream which flows down between the Tripetty 

 Station and the Engineer's bungalow at Kirkumbady fort, and were associ- 

 ated with a good deal of quarUite debris and shingle. 



