Partially Ground Celts

   The Neolithic Celt which is the prototype of the early hoe blade of iron is thin and broad and of uniform thickness, the cutting edge being somewhat broader than the butt end. The first metal tools, which were made during the Bronze Age, are said to be copies of this type of stone tool.

Burial Potteries of Tirunelveli

    In all the earlier excavations of   prehistoric sites in South India, no copper or bronze objects were found either in association with or immediately after the late Neolithic Age. The bronze objects known to us are those found in association with the pottery, beads and iron objects of the Early Iron Age or megalithic burials, as for example, those from the Urn burials of Adichanallur in Tirunelveli district and those from cairns of the Nilgiris are exhibited. At these sites copper objects flat celts were found associated with microliths painted pottery and sometimes polished stone axes. This crude and primitive chalcolithic culture of Western, Central and Southern India does not appear to have any links with the Chalcolithic of the Indus Valley. It resembles the latter only in the occurrence of painted pottery, microliths and copper objects. The people of the chalcolithic phase of peninsular India lived in mud houses with flooring of some fibrous material mixed with lime.

    About twelve miles to the South East of Tirunelveli town on the Southern banks of the river Tambarani lies the world's largest burial ground covering over 114 acres. The urns buried in this region are large and pyriform in shape. Thousands of such urns were found buried each six feet apart and of the depth of three or twelve feet.