158 The Pygmy Flint Age tn Lincolnshive. 
Some of them may have been used for tattooing —as has been 
suggested; but certainly not a great proportion of the many 
thousands that have been found. 
By wHat Cass or PEOPLE WERE THESE IMPLEMENTS MADE. 
To begin with, these small implements were made by people 
with keen vision, the minute character of their work being more 
easily seen and appreciated under a magnifying glass than with 
the naked eye of an ordinary observer. 
They were also clever designers as the persistent shapes of 
these implements show. It isnot to an ordinary person an easy 
matter to chip out a piece of flint in the shape of these samples, 
the same figures or shapes are repeated in hundreds of instances. 
Again they were careful workers as is seen by the way in 
which these flint implements are made—to-day men would have 
to exercise almost the care of a jeweller if they wished to make 
implements equal in shape and accuracy to those found on the 
Scunthorpe Floor, made by these Pygmy Workers. 
They knew how to make a five, as many fragments of 
Charcoal have been found on the floors of their dwelling places. 
As regards theiy clothing | am inclined to the idea that they 
clothed themselves but sightly, and what clothing they had was 
made of the skins of animals taken in the chase. 
Pycmy Sites, STATIONS OR DWELLING PLACES. 
One very interesting feature regarding Pygmy Stations, sites 
or dwelling places where these Flints are found is their close 
association with a Peat Floor. Monsieur de Pierpoint says, “‘ He 
collected some thousands of Pygmy Flints on the high plateaux 
above the Meuse. Formerly a thick forest covered these mountains 
and in that district the small flints are mostly found near springs 
and away from the east winds.” Both at Scunthorpe and on the 
Hills of the Pennine Range it is on, or in the Peat that these 
Diminutive Flints are discovered. Dr. Colley March found them in 
a bed of Peat six feet deep, in certain cases ten feet deep, and at an 
altitude of thirteen hundred and fifty feet above sea level. Dr. 
Gatty found them at Scunthorpe on the top o! the Peat and below 
the wind-blown sand 200 feet above sea level. 
