64 A. Rea —¥ re-historic Burial-places in Southern India. [No. 2, 
almost perfect outline, through having been filled in with the clayey 
soil. Its outline should be of importance in pointing to the class of 
people who originated these remains. The bones of the skeleton are 
large-sized, and evidently those of a person over the ordinary height. 
The proportions of these and most others found in the ordinary-sized 
tombs should, I am afraid, throw some discredit on the popular native 
legend, that people lived to a great age, shrunk into pigmies, and were 
then so buried. This fiction seems to be very general, for I heard it 
related by people at all these places I visited. None of the bones, found 
in any of these graves, were calcined. In another tomb, of thick earthen¬ 
ware, I found some bones and three vessels, besides broken fragments 
of others. (Figs. 34 to 36.) 
Fig. 34, a necked chatti, inches in diameter and 4J inches deep; 
colour, black and red. 
Fig. 35, similar to figs. 28 to 33 ; 5J inches in diameter and 4J- 
inches deep ; colour, black and red. 
Fig. 36, semi-oval vessel, 5 inches in diameter and 3^ inches deep; 
colour, black and red. 
In a broken specimen of one of the small sarcophagi—of thin fine 
glazed material—four articles were found (figs. 37 to 40). It was about 
18 inches high and was simply an enlarged example of fig. 27, with a 
series of grooves on the outer surface, parallel to and near the rim. 
Fig. 37 is a small cup-shaped vessel, 4J inches in diameter, and 3J 
inches deep ; colour, black and red. It has the peculiar dotted, diagonal- 
lined ornament I previously remarked in fig. 28 ; in this case the groups 
are of four lines each. 
Fig. 38, a necked chatti, 5J inches in diameter and 4J- inches high, 
colour red. 
Fig. 39, similar to fig. 36 ; colour, black and red. 
Fig. 40, small bowl-shaped vessel, 5J inches in diameter and 2} 
deep ; colour, black and red. 
In some fragments close to the tomb, in which were the above, I 
found a small semi-globular pot nearly complete ; size, 4 inches in dia¬ 
meter and 3 inches deep : colour, black and red, with the ornament on 
the black, before described. The small tomb found at this place, and 
which I removed complete to Madras, was opened after my return. 
Removing the soil, I found fragments of two small chatties, and also 
figs. 42, 43 and 62. 
Fig. 42 is a small cup-shaped article, 3J inches in diameter and 
depth ; colour, black and red. 
Fig. 43, a small-necked chatti, 7 inches in diameter and 5| inches 
deep. Its colour is red, but on one side is an irregular patch of glazed 
