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is specially distinctive of that locality, and any explanation 
of the use of “ pygmies” must be good enough to cover 
the smallest Scunthorpe specimens. The trapezoidal 
and crescentic forms, abundant in the Vindhyas, are scarce 
at Scunthorpe. The four forms to which reference has 
been made above are by no means the only ones. 
“It is astonishing,” Mr Gatty writes, ‘‘ what quantities of small 
flints you get with secondary working upon them. ‘Tiny hollow 
scrapers 5). chisels V , square [sic] scrapers| J, and innumerable 
points QO with bulb of percussion. . . ‘There are no end of 
nameless pieces with secondary work on them, showing they have 
been in use and that a very plentiful supply was kept up. I think if 
you saw the big collection I have, and the absolute difference between 
these flints and ordinary neoliths, you would agree that they are a 
distinct class made by a distinct people. . . I have found ‘ Anglo- 
Indian pygmies’ at Hooton, and up on the Pennines at Bradfield. It 
was Dr Colley March at Rochdale who made the great discovery 
under the peat. I have seen these, and they are true Vindhya Hill 
and Scunthorpe varieties. . . It is true you find Neolithic knives 
and scrapers—very small—in all places; but the real article is utterly 
different. Besides the places mentioned I only know Lakenheath 
[near Brandon in Suffolk,] as a real ‘pygmy’ locality. Sevenoaks 
and Hastings, perhaps [as well], but I have not seen the best 
examples from these.”?! 
No cores have been found at Scunthorpe, although Mr 
Carlleyle obtained numbers of them in India, and they: 
also occur in Belgium, where they measure about an inch 
in height. The core found by Sir John Evans at Weavers- 
thorpe in Yorkshire, which is only ‘85 inch high, 
evidently was used for the manufacture of minute imple- 
ments like the ““pygmies.” (C4ac. Stone [mpl., 2nd ed., 
p. 276, fig. 189.) 
The foreign sites, for “ pygmies” are numerous. Dr 
Sturge, of Nice, who possesses an exceptionally fine 
collection of large and small flint implements, found, as 
1 For Hastings specimens, see Evans, Ancient Stone Implements, 2nd ed., p. 325, 
fig. 232 A.B.C., compared with Vindhyan examples, fig. 232, D.E.F. Evans’ notes give 
most of the references to the printed information on the subject. The British Museum has 
a set from Dr Colley March’s find. 
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