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NOTES.—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED. 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
“ Pigmy Flints ” in Epping Forest— At the meeting 
on 25th January 1913, Mr. Hazzledine Warren, exhibited 
some Pigmy and other Flint implements from a Prehis¬ 
toric site in Epping Forest. He said—Upon, this site a "very 
large number of small and beautifully made flakes, many of 
them of pygmy dimensions, had been found, together with 
cores, hammer-stones, fabricators, and one or two small fragments 
of prehistoric pottery. Associated with these were true pygmy 
implements, with trimmed edges, mostly of the long nanow 
scalene, or of the ‘ a dos rebatter ’ form. In my opinion these 
pygmy flints were not to be looked upon as implements complete 
in themselves, but a number of them would be used to form the 
armature of a single implement. I have recently seen a knife 
made by the aborigines of Australia, which illustrates this 
principle. This was a wooden stick with a great number of 
small splinters of European glazed porcelain, set in gum end to 
end, in order to form a jagged cutting edge. Such tools must 
seem to us very awkward and inefficient; still the fact remained 
that they were made by modern savages, and that they contrived 
to do very good work with them. 
It has also been suggested that pygmy implements might have 
been set in a piece of wood for the purpose of softening leathei. 
Indeed, this has actually been tried and found to give excellent 
results. Others again may very probably have been barbs, 
set in the heads of javelins or harpoons. There are five pre¬ 
historic harpoon-heads from Denmark in the British Museum, 
made out of the antler of deer, set along both sides with pygmy 
flint barbs. Mr. F. M. Haward believes that the long narrow 
scalene pygmy forms were in reality arrow T -points, but this 
explanation certainly could not appty to all pygmies. S. Hazzle¬ 
dine Warren, F.G.S., Loughton. 
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