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forests of oak, yew, pine, birch and hazel in the Ancholme Valley 
to the distinction between the Hibaldslow and Kirton Beds of the 
Lincolnshire Limestone, or the transition beds between the Lias 
and Oolite on the cliff escarpment, or the isolated beds of plateau 
gravel of uncertain age which cap its summit, or the drift sands 
which bury and obscure its outline on the west—all require 
further elucidation. Man has been there from the time of the late 
forest growth after the age of glaciation. ‘The sandy commons, 
which the wind still idly shifts in places and piles up in fresh 
forms as it will, have rewarded interested collectors with lovely 
leaf-shaped and barbed arrow-heads of early neolithic workman- 
ship, and with the scrapers, saws and other rough tools peculiar 
to his time and knowledge of the arts. Here, too, as well as on 
Linwood to the east, have been discovered transition tools—wholly 
chipped and yet ground on the edge—with large wholly ground 
axes and bored hammers of the most finished workmanship. 
dearge numbers of Pygmy flints are scattered all over the sand 
_ hills. Some as perfectly wrought as their larger congeners. 
Could they be found in such quantities unless they were ‘“ the 
_ practise tools” of skilful children or the remains of a pygmy race? 
I who have picked up these tiny flints, which are clearly of human 
origin, have no theory to advance, for I know nothing of a 
pygmy race, and must leave the matter to acknowledged masters 
to find out the truth. This district has yielded splendid bronzes 
too, in variety of shapes showing marked evolution. We trust 
some of them will find their last resting place in the County 
Museum, along with the early and late worked stones of this 
locality. The Frodingham Ironstone Bed was worked in 
prehistoric times at Manton and Twigmoor. The remains of 
these old smeltings may be discovered as far as the protecting 
sand extends towards the Great Central Railway on the south. 
They are only exposed by rabbit burrows, or by ditching, or by the 
plough share, for like everything else—old iron diggings and 
ee ee es ee pete. 
the foot of Raventhorpe Hill to the Gull Ponds was regularly 
aired with these old scoriza within my note-taking memory, 
., within the last forty years, 
