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counted altogether some 120 cairns, but may have overlooked a few more. The
contents of the twenty-two cairns which were opened were in close agreement
with those found at Damba-kōh. Practically in all the cairns there were bone
fragments, mostly small, associated with pottery vessels such as shown in
Pl. III or with potsherds. Fan. D. 25, 26 (Pl. XXXII) are specimens of large
bowls found one inside the other. Of two saucers, Fan. D. 10, 11 (Pl. XXV),
with a hole at the bottom, one was filled with remains of foodstuffs, including
small bones, apparently of a bird. D. 24 (Pls. III, XXXII) is a large bowl raised
on a stem with spreading base. The flat flask D. 23 (Pls. III, XXXII), with its
spout on one side and four lugs pierced for the passage of a suspension cord,
corresponds exactly to others of that shape first found at Jīwanrī.⁴ Some of
the pottery fragments showed red and dark brown slip. Among other objects
may be mentioned the glass style D. 21 (Pl. X); metal (silver?) ornaments
of twisted wire, D. 17; portion of a folded silver plaque which might have
belonged to a buckle. The use of two perforated small scoop-like objects of
shell, D. 12, 13, is uncertain.

While the opening of these dambs proceeded under Dr. Fábri's direction, I
ascended the valley in the direction of the village of Rāmpk, to look for an 'old
fort' reported by our guide, an intelligent relative to the local chief. The re-
mains found, after prolonged search for a distance of about 4 miles amidst very
broken hilly country, consisted of some thirty-five scattered cairns and traces of
rough walls on narrow rocky hillocks.

But our three days' halt at Fanūch was rewarded by some finds of much
greater interest, affording a welcome auspice of what might be hoped for
on the Bampūr side. On my return from Dambān, Sultān Āghā Ḥusain Anṣārī,
ever interested in our work, produced to my pleasant surprise two pottery
objects which had been presented to him by the local Qāḍī, a fine old man of
some education, as having been found by villagers in the previous year when
clearing a qanāt or kārēz. In the tall upright beaker, Fan. 014 (Pls. VI, XXXII), and
in a small jar, Fan. 011, painted with a hachured black pattern over a grey body,
I could at a glance recognize specimens of prehistoric ware closely resembling
ceramic articles recovered by me from chalcolithic sites like Shāhī-tump in Mak-
rān.⁵ The Qāḍī was ready enough to guide us to the spot where these finds were
said to have been made.

On reaching the qanāt indicated, close to the northern edge of the cultivated
area, a villager who had been present at the time at once showed the find-spot
in the steep bank of the cutting close to where the canal issues into the open.