The fragments of the soapstone bowls recently found vary in style, size, and carving, and these fragments represent at least thirty different bowls. Mr. Bent also found fragments representing some ten different bowls, and as there still remain large areas of lower floors to be opened out, there may be still further evidences of even more extensive use of these articles by the ancients of all periods at Zimbabwe. The diameters, judged by the radii of the segments, vary from 1 ft. 1½ in., which is the smallest size yet found, to 1 ft. 3¾ in., the largest so far discovered. The heights of the outside of the rims range from 2 in. to 3½ in., the majority being about 2¾ in. The rims, which are all without flange, except in one instance, are from 1⅛ in. to 1⅝ in. in thickness. The bases of the bowls have about the same average thickness, but in a few cases they are somewhat thinner. The insides of the bowls from rim to rim are always beautifully flat and smooth. The bottoms are thickly covered with fine scratches, as if the bowls had been constantly pushed along the top of stone or fine cement work. The insides of some of the bowls show signs of having been subjected to very great heat previously to the breaking of the article. It may well be imagined that bowls of these dimensions, cut out of solid soapstone, itself an exceedingly heavy stone, must have been of great weight, and that without considering any contents they might have held. A few bowls only were plain—that is, with no decorative pattern on the outside—though all are finely worked, and the plainest has rounded sides which slightly project at the top of the rim. The designs on the relics vary, and include procession of horned animals (Pl. I., fig. 4), zebras, dogs, a bird, and a man. The decorations on the majority of the bowls comprise (1) herring-bone, plain; (2) herring-bone on cords, _i.e._ two parallel cords with their respective lines of strands inclining opposite ways, and thus together forming a herring-bone pattern; (3) cord pattern, the strands of the parallel cords both inclining in the same direction. These cords in (2) and (3) are found both vertically and horizontally. In the case of cord pattern of any sort the cords are carved in lengths, the lengths being divided by plain protruding squares at intervals; (4) circular discs sunk into the surface, the discs being either plain or covered with rings within rings till the centre is reached; (5) a chain of diamond-shaped panels with centres completely filled up with lines parallel to the outer lines.