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to appreciate the immense amount of skill and patience which 

 must have been expended in their manufacture. They have 

 been found in many localities in this country. Messrs. John- 

 son and Wright, in their book on " Neolithic Man in North- 

 east Surrey," write : " Our Surrey specimens are limited to 

 one from Netley Heath, one from Richmond Park, two from 

 Leith Hill, and another from Headley ; these with some 

 probable ones recorded from Lockner Holt, near Chilworth, 

 appear to complete the county's record." Quite recently, 

 Mr. Allen Chandler, J. P., a well-known collector of flint 

 implements in the Haslemere district, has succeeded in 

 obtaining a remarkably fine series of these flints, from a 

 site which appears to have been that of a neolithic flint imple- 

 ment factory on Blackdown, a hill nearly one thousand feet 

 high, about a mile from Haslemere town, and just over the 

 Sussex border. Specimens from this site may be seen in 

 our Museum. Any collector may, with little trouble, secure 

 a series for himself, if he can alight upon the spot, which, 

 however, is not very easy to find, Blackdown being for 

 the most part an open moor several hundred acres in area, 

 covered with gorse, heather and bracken. We intend to 

 give an illustration of some of these flints later on. These 

 curious implements occur in many countries. They have 

 been recorded from caves of the Vindhya Hills of India, from 

 Palestine, Egypt, North Africa, the South of Spain, France 

 and Belgium. The form is remarkably persistent in all these 

 countries, so much so that it has been supposed they are the 

 work of a diminutive race of men ; but we might just as well 

 argue that the beautiful barbed arrowheads which occur all 

 over the world are the work of a single race. There can be 

 little doubt that some of these tiny flints were used as arrow 

 points, others as awls and drills. Some may have been used 

 to bore holes in shells, for shell discs have been found in 

 direct association with pigmy flints in South Spain. A large 

 series of " pigmies " from various countries may be seen in 

 the British Museum. 



