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I had found before. Shortly after, when sending some things to 
the British Museum, I enclosed this minute tool together with 
the hollow scraper, asking that they should be shown to Mr. Read 
for his opinion as to whether they were pigmy implements. The 
answer was that Mr. Read considers them true pigmies. There- 
fore, knowing that wherever pigmy implements occurred they 
were generally to be found in large numbers, you may imagine 
that my zeal for the ordinary hollow scraper was suddenly 
eclipsed and that it was not long before I was again in that sand 
pit assiduously hunting for this new kind of minute tools. 
Several were turned up at each visit, and I found they occurred 
over the whole area of the rising ground where the sand had 
been exposed, that is to say, in a space about 200 by 50 yards. 
But an enthusiastic member of our Archeological Club has, 
quite independently of me, still further extended this area, and 
we now know that the pigmies occur along the rise of the land 
for a distance of nearly a 1,000 yards. In this respect the site 
agrees with the finds made in other parts of England, where the 
productive areas range from 30 acres in extent down to 
100 square yards. 
Such was the origin of my discovery of pigmies near 
Brighton. Ever since I and one or two friends have followed it 
up with the utmost enthusiasm. Not content with looking over 
the top of the sand and the heaps of refuse mould, I closely 
examined the sides of the sandpit to discover, if possible, some 
of the pigmies in situ. In this, too, I met with success, for 
several were pulled out about 18in. deep in the capping of the 
mould, whilst others were found protruding lower down at the 
point where the mould and sand meet. Flakes were also met 
with at the same levels. 
Having ascertained this much, the mode of procedure next 
introduced was the poking of the sandpit’s sides with the end of 
one’s walking stick. This, too, was surprisingly successful, for at 
one point in the side of the old roadway leading into the sandpit 
the walking stick exposed a layer of artificial flint chips about 
2ft. Gin. from the surface and a little below the level of the top 
of the sand. 
Investigation with hands and walking stick was ener- 
getically pursued, and the result of this prehistoric method of 
excavation was beyond one’s most ardent hopes. Handful after 
handful of the flakes were pulled out, and it was observed that 
they were lying on the bottom of a small basin-shaped pit 
scooped out of the mould down into the sand beneath. This 
slide shews a-typical selection of the best flakes. 
Soon after operations were commenced a “pigmy” was 
pulled out with a handful of these flakes; then came the cores 
from which the flakes were struck ; burnt flints used in primitive 
cooking; then more pigmies; scrapers; hollow scrapers; now 
