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It was on the Peat that I and my friends, the Rev. R. N. 
Matthews, of Tetney, in the year 1900, and the Rey. Samuel Wild, 
of Dunholme, found numerous examples as recently as thus 
last Spring, 1907. Dr. Gatty found as many as 200 implements 
on the floor of one habitation. These facts lead me to the belief 
that the Natural conditions or surroundings of Scunthorpe have 
completely changed since the time .of the deposit of these 
implements. 
I believe that the Natural conditions at Scunthorpe were 
very much like the conditions at the Ituri Forest of North 
Africa at the present day, where we see a Peat Deposit in progress. 
That the Pygmies lived ina warmer atmosphere at Scunthorpe 
than now exists in England, and that these people lived in 
communities in small huts, suchas may be seen now among these 
living survivals of Pygmy People. hey were in fact Forest 
Dwellers. 
No pottery has been found with the Pygmy Flints in 
Lincolnshire, but a class of rude hand-made pottery has been 
found with the Indian Pygmy Flints, and entire skeletons of the 
Pygmy people have been found both iv India and Germany. In- 
India they dwelt in caves and rock shelters, but at Scunthorpe we 
have no trace of caves or rock shelters, therefore hut circles seem 
to be the only alternative to fall back upon as their dwelling 
places in Lincolnshire. 
_ To wnat Periop in THE SToNE AGE MUST WE ATTRIBUTE THE 
; Pycmy Race or MANKIND? 
Here we have a problem that puzzles many at the present 
time. Mr. Read of the British Museum suggests a Neolithic Age 
_ or Bronze Period, while Mr. Vincent Smith does not agree with 
that, but inclines to the belief that they are to be placed at the 
end of the Paleolithic Age. Dr. Colley March, calls at ‘The Early 
- Neolithic Floor of East Lancashire. 
~ One thing is certain, we do not find any smooth or polished 
stone implements on the Pygmy Floor. Another thing is equally 
true we do not find Pygmy Flints associated with Bronze or 
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Copper implements, so that they were not metal workers. 
The suggestion has been thrown out that the Pygmies were a- 
