1888.] , A. Rea —¥ re-historic Burial-places in Southern India. 
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Anapanadi. 
The tombs at Anapanadi, on the south-east outskirts of Madura, 
are all of earthenware and pyriform in shape ; they stand in a piece of 
waste ground to the east of the village. The ground in its extent and 
general appearance exactly resembles that at Paravai. The tombs ap¬ 
pear above the ground singly and in groups. They vary considerably 
in size. One, which I dug out and removed, contained the bones of a 
child. It measures 1 foot 2| inches in diameter, by 1 foot 7 inches deep. 
Others I saw, evidently broken off about their middle circumference, 
measured 3 feet 6 inches in diameter. These were the largest of any. 
All these were of a coarse red earthenware material, of a very different 
clay from the finely-grained light material of the enclosed smaller 
articles. Some few tombs, however, always small, which I noticed most 
particularly at this place, were made of a thin black and red glazed 
earthenware like that of the small vessels, about three-sixteenths of an 
inch thick. This species of tomb was comparatively limited in number ; 
they were evidently used by a superior class, and—from the bones 
found inside — seemingly by females. One of this latter form of tomb, 
on examination, was found to contain three nicely-shaped little vessels. 
(Plate XI, figs. 30 to 32). 
Pig. 30, small pear-shaped lota, 2£ inches in diameter and 2 inches 
deep ; colour, black inside, black and red outside. 
Pig. 31, small-necked chatty, with painted bottom ; 3f inches in 
diameter and depth ; colour, black and red. 
Fig. 32, double ring or stand, probably for fig. 31 ; 3|- inches in 
diameter and If inches deep ; colour, black. 
A tomb of the more ordinary earthenware I next dug out, remained 
with its globular cover complete. It measured 3 feet in diameter, and 
4 feet deep including the lid. As usual, it was cracked in different 
places. The expansion and contraction of the moist earth which had 
found its way inside through the cracks could hardly leave it otherwise. 
It stood deep in the ground, with none others appearing on the surface 
within a considerable distance of it. In this I found one solitary vessel 
(Pig. 33) 4f inches in diameter and 5 inches deep, similar in shape to 
Pig. 28. There were no other fragments, and as the- tomb was complete, 
none could have previously been taken out. Very different is this from 
the fifteen articles found in the one from Paravai (with figs. 9 to 23). 
Doubtless there were reasons for the difference—perhaps the poverty or 
wealth of the deceased, his surviving family, or some custom peculiar to 
these people. This one may have been the last of his family ; the grave 
was apart from the others and buried deeply in the ground. In this 
one, I found a skull with some of the bone remaining ; and the rest in 
