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Mr. Lewis Abbott says that ‘‘ One or two fragments of bone 
showed signs of carving. One was a well-made stiletto, another 
a portion of a needle. The most interesting circumstance 
connected with the bones was that the flint wedges were found 
in situ in the bones, as they were used for splitting them. (One 
of these is shown on the screen.) The whole of the marrow 
bones were thus split for marrow and the skulls for brains ; and 
eyen bones which contain no marrow were often similarly 
reduced, possibly for either boiling to extract grease or for use in 
making bone tools.”* 
No large tools, such as the flint axe, were found with the 
pigmies at Hastings. 
Pigmy implements have also been found at Fairlight by Mr. 
Ruskin Butterfield, at Pulborough by Mr. Garraway Rice, F.5.A., 
and at four places near Horsham by Messrs. C. J. Attree and 
E. J. G. Piffard. Compared with the other finds in England, 
‘Sussex has therefore proved very rich in this interesting group 
of diminutive flint tools. 
Now let me give you the history of my discovery of pigmy 
flint instruments near Brighton. A year or two ago I was 
particularly interested in that class of neolithic tool known as 
hollow scrapers. These, which I fully explained in my last paper, 
are artificial chips of flint, with little notches chipped out of 
their sides, used for scraping objects of wood or bone, such as 
the shafts of arrows or bone needles. At the time of which I 
speak I had occasion to visit a sandpit near Brighton in connection 
with the discovery of antiquities other than stone tools. But, 
haying let my mind run riot on hollow scrapers, even the 
discovery of more important remains did not prevent me from 
keeping a sharp look out for them whenever I happened to be in 
a likely locality. 
The sand pit alluded to has a capping of clayey mould on 
an average about 2ft. deep. In order that this mould shall not 
mix with the sand, it is removed in large patches by the work- 
man and the top of the deep bed of sand is thus exposed. I 
cannot show you a slide or give you a detailed descripion of the 
sand-pit, otherwise the secret which I am unfortunately compelled 
to keep will be mine no longer. Let me therefore say that, in 
walking over the top of the sand from which the surface mould 
had been removed, I picked up a very small hollow scraper and 
several unworked flint chips. These gave me the clue to a new 
site, and when visiting the spot again I found other minute flint 
chips, including one, very like a tiny knife blade, with beautiful 
secondary working all the way down the thick edge and on the 
two ends of the sharp edge as well. It was quite unlike anything 

* «< Primeval Refuse Heaps at Hastings,’’ by W. J. Lewis Abbott, 
F.G.S. ; Natural Science, August, 1897, p. 95. 
