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OLD GKAVES IN THE COIMBATOEE DISTRICT. 
divided into two chambers by another stone slab^ not quite 
in the centre. The general appearance of the construction 
as looked at from above is shown in figure I. 
Figure II is a section of the same. The sub-dividing 
stones of tbe two chambers are, as sbown therein, only about 
2 feet 6 inches high. About half a foot below the top of 
each, sub-dividing stone, a flat stone slab is laid to the cen- 
tral stone, along the whole length of the dolmen, on both 
sides. To the outside of the sub-dividing stones, on both 
sides, is an empty space. The direction of the dolmen is 
east and west, and the eastern wall is one large slab, which 
contains two holes as shown in figures II and III. These 
holes are about 1 foot 3 inches in diameter, and are the 
doors which lead into the building from outside. They 
were closed outside with stone slabs. This dolmen was 6 
feet deep, 3 feet 8 inches long, 5 feet broad, each chamber 
being about 21 feet broad. 
To one entering such a chamber through the round hole 
in the east wall, and supposing there to be no choking up 
by soil, the appearance w^ould be a stone chamber G feet 
high by 24 feet broad by 3 feet 8 inches long, one half of 
which was a stone shelf or bed, and the other a vacant 
space or passage. 
Underneath the above mentioned stone shelves or beds, 
were found buried in mud the following articles of potterv : 
7 pots of the kind shown as a, 1 of 6, 7 of c, 4 of <?, 4 of e, 
14 of /, 4 of ^, 8 of 7i and 7 of i. 
These are all of red earthenware, a to d, are very fine 
work, the color is a dull red, but glazed, and barred by 
parallel rows of yellow lines as is roughly shown on a- The 
pots of a, h, and d muster are a fine polished black inside, 
those of c muster are the same inside and out. 
The vessels from c to / arc of a coarser make, and have 
no polish or ornamentation : y'and g appear to be intended 
