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proportions. The original polish has not preserved it from the effects 
of the weather, during, perhaps, several hundreds of years, and the stone is 
corroded and pitted on the surface, the material being fine-grained diorite. 
Fig. 14 a polished celt, much weathered is, from its shape, one of the 
most interesting in the collection. It is 75" long by 350 broad. On either 
side is a shallow cup-mark or depression, resembling the depressions of the 
celts found in Europe. It is remarkable as having two notches about half 
the distance from the cutting edge. These were evidently made for the 
purpose of binding it to a handle, and the opposite directions of the planes 
of the notches indicate that the binding was carried round and round. In 
Evans’ “ Stone Implements,” p. 9, a similar celt from India is noticed as 
being in the possession of Genl. Pitt-Rivers. The Banda specimen was 
found in a village about one mile from Kirwee. 
The implement illustrated in fig. 15 is a battered and expended celt of a 
fine-grained diorite, approaching basalt. On either side is a large oval-shaped 
depression, suggesting that the stone, first used as a celt, was utilized 
subsequently as a hammer. Evans in his Ancient Stone Implements of 
Great Britain, fig. 207, notices that in England, it is by no means uncommon 
to find portions of polished celts, which, after the edge has by some 
means been taken away, have been converted into hammers. The specimen 
now figured, closely resembles fig. 168 in Evans’ volume already noticed. 
Fig. 16 is a polished celt of diorite, from Robertsgunge in the Mirzapore 
District, and differs entirely in shape from the celts already figured. The 
side view closely resembles fig. 67 of Evans’ work, a celt found in the bed 
of the Thames, London. It has been blunted at the top, and is almost round 
in section until within an inch and a half from the base, where it expands 
slightly, as shown in the sketch. From its cylindrical form it more closely 
resembles a village Mahadeo, and this may account for its having been 
found on a shrine so far east as Robertsgunge. The habit of preserving 
celts under trees is not general in the Mirzapore District, although celts 
must be quite as abundant as in Banda, for Mr. Cockburn and a friend, who 
searched together, found five in a circuit round Ivandakote. Two of these 
are of a square type not yet obtained in Banda. 
The collection comprises several long chisel-shaped celts and a vast 
number of tiny immature implements of the same shape as the larger celts 
figured. The latter may either have been hafted or used between the fore¬ 
finger and thumb. The diorite when ground and polished takes and pre¬ 
serves, under rough usage, a perfect edge. One of the smaller ones that 
has been fixed into a handle of staghorn, after the manner of those found 
in the Swiss Lake dwellings, has been sharpened, and I can testify from 
experience, chops wood nearly as efficiently as a small iron axe. 
The subject will be continued in a later number of the Journal. 
