Ancient Indian Colonies in the Far East (Vol. I: Champa; Vol. II: Suvarnadvipa) v2.c13.133

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Various articles are found in these graves, such as beads, neolithic stone implements, copper rings for arms and legs, iron lance-point or short swords. Bronze articles are not, however, found in these tombs, though sporadic finds of chisels and axe-heads, made of bronze, by their likeness with neolithic implements of the same kind, indicate a knowledge of bronze before the period of later Hindu colonisation.