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something fairly large, namely, a flint axe of purely neolithic 
type, which, I think I am correct in stating, has never before 
been found in actual or indisputable association with pigmy flint 
implements. 
When the spoils were brought home and laid out it was 
found that as many as seventy pigmies had been turned out 
from the bottom of this shallow hole. A representative series is 
shown on the screen. These are the scrapers found. One is 
broken by fire. In form they are long or spatulate, and the 
same type occurred with the Hastings find. 
Nearly 2,000 flakes came out of the hole, and the interest 
of these was considerably enhanced by the discovery of about 
thirty flint nodules or cores from which the flakes were obtained. 
This slide shows us three examples of the cores, and the centre 
one tells the same tale as the Hastings core, namely, how the 
prehistoric workman sometimes failed in getting off the flake he 
desired for conversion into a pigmy instrument. 
From the hole or pit, which was about six feet in diameter, 
no trace of bones was turned out, neither was any pottery found,’ 
so, in these respects, the “find ’ differed from that of Hastings. 
What then is the story which the contents of this small pit 
have to tell? This question opens up a wide field for the 
imagination, and, I must admit, that it cannot be fully answered 
in the present stage of our knowledge of early man ; for, instead 
of simplifying matters, these discoveries show how complex are 
the problems connected with the study of prehistoric remains. 
Briefly put, the fragmentary story revealed by the discovery 
near Brighton is as follows : — 
The existence of the minute implements, together with 
artificial chips and cores over such a wide area, which is situated 
some distance away from the Downs on the Weald, plainly 
indicates that this spot possessed certain features which were of 
advantage to prehistoric man. Here he brought flint nodules in 
order to produce chips from which to form these tiny implements. 
The fact that the latter occur in such numbers seems to prove 
they were used on the spot and then discarded. The discovery 
with the flakes and pigmies of flints showing traces of having 
been in or pretty close to a fire tells us another fragment of the 
story. These, as I explained in my last paper, were used in 
primitive cooking operations, and we may thus regard the whole 
area as having been, at some prehistoric time, a settlement or 
camping ground of the Britons of the Weald. 
The discoveries in the pit supply remarkable confirmation 
of this. Over this hole, which he dug down through the stiff 
mould into the sand, the Ancient Briton probably erected some 
sort of tent, in order to supply shelter from inclement weather 
or from the rays of the sun. Afterwards it served as his 
