Sm. 6.-A small vessel, 3"-25 high, with a mouth 2" 40 wide, the body of the vessel much expanded and with a sharp edge all round. Black inside and outside.

Sm. 7.-A vessel 5′′-75 high and 7"-50 in its greatest diameter and 4"50 in diameter at the mouth, black inside and reddish brown externally where the black colour has disappeared.

Sm. 8.-A bowl-shaped vessel measuring 3"60 high with a diameter at the mouth of 5"-54, and of 6" a short way below it, coloured black inside, but the black has disappeared externally.

Sm. 9.-Another but smaller, 3" 25 high by 4"-75 wide at the mouth. The black colour has all but disappeared internally and externally.

Sm. 10.-A much smaller vessel of the same kind, 2" 10 high and 3" 90 wide at the mouth; black internally and externally. Sm. 11.-A still smaller but similar vessel 2"-30 high and 2"-90 wide at the mouth; black internally and externally. Sm. 12.-A much smaller, 0′′-95 high by 1"-95 in diameter at the mouth.

Sm. 13.-An earthenware vessel 5" 75 high and 6′′-75 in diameter at the mouth. There is a slight expansion external to the mouth for about one inch, after which the vessel rapidly contracts to the base which has a diameter of 2" 75.

Mr. Broughton also pointed out that some old fragments had a large amount of tin, and approached nearly to speculum metal; and he added the interesting observation that he had bought in the Calicut bazar some brass basins, which, like all such native ware, consisted really of bronze and had the following composition:

This, however, is very different from the composition of ancient bronze. Breek's Primitive Tribes and Monuments of the Nilgiris, p. 94.

Sm. 14.-A plate-like earthen vessel measuring about 1".75 high, and 8" 15 in diameter: coloured black inside and outside.

Sm. 15.-An earthenware stand for ghārās and such like vessels. It belongs to a form at present in daily use. It is of a compressed hour-glass shape abruptly truncated at each end but wide at the middle; one-half has been broken away but what remains is 2"-45 high and 4" in diameter at the perfect end.

Sm. 16.-Another stand but larger, measuring 5" 10 high with an external diameter below of 8-20 and of nearly the same above, but this end is injured. The internal diameter of the contracted portion of the stand is about 4.75. It has its own natural red colour.

Sm. 17.-Another stand but very much expanded at either end, the centre being reduced to a short tube having a diameter of only 060. The expansions are nearly flat and the broadest is 3′′ 70 in diameter, and the other 3"-50. The height is 2".

Sm. 18.-An earthen vessel 6" 75 high, in form resembling a wine glass but with the receptacle perforated by a hole which passes through the stem and base. The stem is short and has a prominent rounded moulding at its middle, and the base is but little expanded for the size of the portion above.

Sm. 19.-A fragment 370 long of the stem of a vessel, and having two rounded mouldings. It has evidently had a loop at one end, the other having been expanded probably like the foregoing vessel.

Sin. 20.-Part of a human skull consisting chiefly of the occipital and frontal bones, much injured.

Sm. 21.-A fragment of the left side of a human lower jaw.

Sm. 22-23.-Two human molar teeth.

Sm. 24.-A left human molar.

Sm. 25.-The greater part of a left femur but in four pieces and wanting the two extremities.

Sm. 26.-The penultimate fourth of the shaft of a right human tibia.

Sm. 27.-The upper part of the shaft of a right human femur.

Sm. 28.-The upper portion of a left human femur.

Sm. 29.-Part of the upper portion of a left human humerus.

Sm. 30.-Part of the inner side of the upper portion of a left human tibia.

Sm. 31-32.-Two portions of human long bones.

North Coorg.

Muribetta Hill.

Coorg is a province in Southern India surrounded on its western, northern and southern sides by the mountains of the Western Ghats and on the east by Maisur. The kistvaens which yielded the following objects were situated on the top of the Muribetta hill, North Coorg, and were excavated by Major R. A. Cole, who gives the following meagre account of them:1 "Some had concentric rows of upright stones and two of them had upright slabs arched above, so as evidently to have formed an arched entrance within the enclosure. Portions of the arches have been destroyed by the ravages of time. The space within the concentric rows of stones was excavated, and earthen vessels of the exact pattern and description found elsewhere were discovered, but all in miniature * * *. Several beads and tubes, bored through and evidently portions of necklaces

1 Proc. As. Soc. Beng., 1869, p. 202: Ind. Ant., Vol. II, 1873, p. 88.

were also found. These are of the colour and description of agate and have circles in white round, with a zigzag pattern in white in the centre."

The objects found consisted of some small earthenware vessels, a few beads, &c., and a curious metallic disc.

M. B. 1.—A vessel of black unbaked clay on three short legs, its total height being 3"-55. Its greatest external diameter is 2"-75, but it contracts towards the mouth which has an internal diameter of 1"-60. The clay of which it is made is coarse and full of little silicious particles. It appears to have been covered with a coloured layer of some kind, of a reddish colour, but now much cracked and decayed.

This and the following objects were presented to the Asiatic Society of Bengal by Captain R. A. Cole on the 4th August 1869.

M. B. 2.-A small bowl-shaped black earthen vessel covered with a black layer of some kind, probably shell lac and lampblack. It is much broken. Height 1"-45, diameter of mouth 2′′.55.

M. B. 3.—A minute chatti, coloured like the last: height, 135: diameter at middle, 2′′ 15: diameter of mouth external 1"-88: width at neck, 1"-75.

M. B. 4.-A still smaller vessel of the shape of a ghārā retaining here and there the remains of the black colour with which it had been covered. It is 1"-45 high: 1"-55 in diameter at its widest part, 0"-88 in width at the neck, and 1" across the mouth.

M. B. 5-10.-Five carnelian beads, one a small disc 0-35 in diameter and 015 in thickness; the remaining

Oldham, Proc. As. Soc. Beng., 1869, p. 226, Pl. v, fig. 1.

2 There is an error of more than one inch in the height of the vessel as given by Dr. Oldham, Op. cit.

Op. cit., Oldham, p. 227, Pl. v, fig. 5.

four being cylindrical in form and varying in length and diameter, the shortest being the broadest and measuring 052 in length and 0"-3 broad, and the longest the narrowest, 0"-90 long and 0"-22 thick. The disc is ornamented on both sides along the margin by short lines filled with white enamel, and four of the cylindrical beads are surrounded with a varying number of white lines of the same nature, the centre line in two of the beads being serrated or zig-zag. These lines have been cut and filled up with remarkable accuracy, and the beads are all well and regularly bored, so that these arts must have attained considerable perfection at the time when these ornaments were made. Similar beads are exhibited among the Indrapura finds. Ir. K. 36, p. 128 of this Catalogue.

M. B. 11.-A disc of copper 1"09 in diameter and 0"-13 thick except around the central hole which is surrounded by a raised border which increases the thickness to 0"-17. This round hole is 0"-27 in diameter. A slit 0"-07 in width and widening to 0"-10 externally runs outwards from it. Eighteen small irregular eminences are visible around the margin of the disc, each presenting a narrow gilt groove that appears to have been continuous with the two flat surfaces of the disc, the intervening portious being uncovered with gold, and rough as if either broken or unfinished. The disc is therefore apparently only a portion of an ornament of some kind, but of what nature it is impossible to conjecture. As pointed out by Dr. Oldham, the gold seems simply to have been beaten on to the copper, and he observes, "whatever the process adopted, the result is excellent and abundant proof that the makers of this little ornament, the manufacturers of this early specimen of imitation jewellery, had advanced 1 Op. cit., p. 292, Pl. v., figs. 6 and 7.