History of Orissa from the Earliest Times to the British Period v1.c10.2

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Like all provinces of India where the hills approach or extend as far as the sea, Orissa, with its three great divisions, can boast of the oldest relics of human habitation. In the hilly tracts to the west of the flat coast-land of Orissa the oldest stone implements have been discovered. So many as four were described by Coggin Brown, of which two can still be seen in the Indian Museum at Calcutta. V. Ball discovered all of them and described their find-spots more than half a century ago. These four specimens were found in the Garhjat states of Dhenkenal, Angul and Talcher and one in the British district of Sambalpur. The following notes are reproduced from Ball’s articles on stone implements from Orissa :—