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The Pygmy Flint Age in Lincolnshire. 155 
Hooton Roberts Yorkshire,—the latter gentleman some eight years 
ago spoke to me about Pygmy Flints, and asked if I had ever 
come across any in Lincolnshire—at once my thoughts turned 
to Scunthorpe Common, and I asked Mr. Edgar Brown, then 
Manager, of the Scunthorpe Branch of Smith’s Bank, to look out 
for them in August 1g00, and in a short time, he found several 
specimens and was introduced to Dr. Gatty. Dr. Gatty has since 
discovered, as the result of much close personal search, many 
thousands of Pygmy Flints at Scunthorpe. 
Praces WHERE Founp. 
Pygmy Flints are scattered in various places all over the 
world, and records of their discovery have now been made in 
Belguim, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, India, Southern Spain, France 
North and Central Africa and in Great Britain. 
In Great Britain they have been found at Glenluce in 
Wigtonshire, Scotland, various places in Ireland in East Lancashire 
near Rochdale, at Hooton Roberts in South Yorkshire, in the Isle 
of Man, at Bradfield West Riding of Yorkshire, at Hastings, 
Sevenoaks, Sittingbourne, Mildenhall, Cambridgeshire, Laken- 
heath, Suffolk, Marton Common, Lincolnshire, but by far the 
largest number found in any one place in England is that of 
Scunthorpe Common, North Lincolnshire, and that discovery is 
not yet ten years old. 
Since their discovery at Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, specimens 
of these Pygmy Flints from our County have been exhibited in 
London, Dublin, Edinburgh, Manchester, and other places, and 
owing to the kindness of Mr. Edgar Brown many excellent 
specimens are now to be seen in the County Museum at Lincoln. 
Specimens representing various places abroad are to be seen in 
the British Museum—in cases Nos. 43 and 152. 
Having stated where they have been found I now venture to 
‘try and describe what are Pygmy Flints. Practically they are 
a class by themselves. From my private collection I am able to 
exhibit a few specimens, and also slide views showing Lincolnshire 
specimens compared with specimens from India. 
From these specimens it will be seen they are small pieces of 
