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by me from the villagers as evidence in this matter, but that I have no reason to doubt that they were found by them either in this pit or in its vicinity.  They told me that there had been but one other place known to them where bone fragments had been brought out, but that owing to a quarrel concerning the right to the finds the Magistrate had ordered the pit filled in, and no man could thereafter dig deeper than he could drive his plough-share.  At the time when I visited this spot it was covered with fresh crops.
[[underline]]CARVED EARTHEN-WARE[[/underline]]  In addition to the fragments of incised bones, I purchased at Shiao Tun a small piece of unglazed white pottery, cut or moulded in th the dragon-form associated with the bronzes of the Chow dynasty.  This was purchased from a small boy together with two fragments of engraved bone for the sum of one cent Mexican.  He could not tell me where it had been found, but averred that the three objects had occurred together.  This statement, of course, cannot be relied upon.
I later offered the sum of fifty cents, Mexican, for another example of this carved pottery, but was unable to duplicate it or find that any of the villagers had ever seen another like it.
If others of this sort can be found in connection with the inscribed bones, or if the exact location of this specimen could be determined, I should consider that we had at least secured a most valuable piece of evidence bearing on the date of the bones.  There is little doubt that so significant an object as this highly decorated pottery may hereafter be dated with reasonable certainty.