300 Pre-Histovic Man in Lincolnshire. 
Manager of a branch of Smith-Ellisons Bank at Scunthorpe, to 
the subject of what are now known as Pygmy Flints and asked if 
he had ever found any on Scunthorpe Common. Promptly he 
said: No, never. I promised tosend himan article on the sub- 
ject by my friend the Rev. Reginald A. Gatty, of Hooton Roberts, 
Doncaster. As I said Scunthorpe Common looked to me a most 
likely spot for finding them and suggested that Mr. Brown should 
look carefully for them on his next visit, which he did, and found 
many. This was the first recorded discovery of Pygmy Flints in 
Lincolnshire and is due to Mr. Brown. 
This placed Mr. Brown in correspondence with Mr. Gatty 
who has since made long periods of search on the Common where 
they have been found in hundreds. I bring a few specimens 
from my own collection, and one or two slide photographs of 
some in Mr. Gatty’s collection and also a photograph of some 
from the Vindhya Mountains, India. Mr. Gatty’s collection which 
numbers thousands has been exhibited in Edinburgh, Glasgow, 
Dublin, Manchester, London and I believe, in Berlin. Mr. Brown's 
collection has now been given to the Lincoln County Museum. 
These Pygmy Flints are of various forms and sizes chiefly. 
minute ; similar forms and shapes of flint with the same minute 
working have been found in Yorkshire, Lancashire, Bedfordshire, 
on the Continent, in Belgium, France, Germany ; in Africa, in 
Egypt and in Central Africa ; in Asia, India has produced a great 
number. 
The little people from the Ituri Forest seem to be the 
nearest living specimen of humanity to these pygmy races who 
formerly livedin our County. A settlement the Pygmies certainly 
had at Scunthorpe and probably at Manton Common also, only a 
few miles further away. ‘These settlements are almost always 
found close to, or upon a peat district. For further details regard- 
ing the Pygmy Implements I must refer to the Presidential 
Address of 1907. 
Tue Bronze AGE IN LINCOLNSHIRE. 
From the references already made to metal implements 
being found in the Barrows with interm2ats yo1 will doabdtless 
