VOL. XV. (3) PYGMY FLINTS 219 
Mr Gatty informs me, “vast quantities” of Indian types 
of “pygmies” in a very restricted area at Helwan (Helouan) 
in Egypt, and is much impressed by the “very localized” 
distribution of the implements of this class in all parts of 
the world where they have been found. Mr Reed men- 
tions Palestine, North Africa, and Southern Spain as 
countries where minute flint implements occur, but I 
am not sure how far the specimens from all these localities 
exactly agree with the Vindhyan and Scunthorpe forms. 
There is, however, no doubt that true “ pygmies,” 
exhibiting the same peculiarities as those from India 
and Lincolnshire, are found abundantly at certain limited 
localities in Belgium, chiefly in the province of Namur, 
between the town of that name and Dinant, distant 
about fifteen miles to the south. The Belgian finds have 
been well described and beautifully illustrated by M. de 
Pierpoint.* 
The crescent-shaped implements, about half an inch in 
length, do not seem to be common in Belgium, but are 
found at Cave No. 3 of Goyet, which is considered to 
belong to the age of the mammoth. Similar implements 
occur in the French province of Dordogne, and at several 
Spanish localities, including Aguilar in Murcia. 
The Belgian “piercers,” that is to say, delicately 
worked, straight-pointed flakes, are believed to have been 
made during the long time extending from the end of the 
Quaternary period to the Neolithic Age, and seem to have 
been contemporary with the mammoth and rhinoceros. 
The trapezoidal or rhomboidal forms, although rare in the 
valley of the Meuse, are found at a place called Sarts 4 
Soile (Bois Laitrie, Riviére,) where M. de Pierpoint found 
10,000 flakes and small chips in a space of sixty square 
métres. A few sites furnish both piercers (Jetetes pointes) 
1 Observations sur de Trés Petits Instruments en Silex, provenant en plusieurs 
Stations Neolithiques de la région de la Meuse.” (Bzl/. Soc. Anthrop., Bruxelles, tome 
xiii., 1894-5). 
