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0278 Explorations in Turkestan : Expedition of 1904 : vol.1
トルキスタンの調査 1904年 : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000178
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Excepting a piece of a modern iron band taken from the débris in Komorof's
trench, and a modern iron nail from the surface of the terrace VI, iron was found
only in the upper layers of the South Kurgan. Hence we can unhesitatingly
draw the conclusion that iron was unknown to the inhabitants of both hills, during
the life of the older epochs, these epochs being also sharply differentiated from the
younger by their pottery. Iron was found in the upper digging just under the
surface in terrace A and in the outer digging; that is, at all those points whose
pottery characterized the youngest culture.

There can be little doubt that we have a sickle in the two much-rusted frag-
ments (S.K. 41; fig. 289; plate 39, fig. 4). The fragments show a broad, short
handle and two rivets. The point at which this sickle was found is of prime
significance, it having been collected in terrace A on April 12, 1904, at the deepest
level at which iron was found in this terrace. On that day the absolute level
of +27 feet was reached here. This, according to the calculations of R. W. Pum-