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., 19, and Philostratus, _Vit. Apoll._, Tz. III., 47, and others, place them in India, where, in modern days, many thousands of Pygmy Flints have been found.

The representation of Pygmy people is frequently met with on Greek vases and Egyptian pottery.

After two thousand years of literary silence about Pygmy people, modern travellers like Captain Harrison have brought over from the Ituri Forest Pygmy people, and exhibited them in all parts of England.

SMALL DARK-COLOURED PEOPLE UNDER THE MIDDLE HEIGHT

Major Powell Cotton, in the year 1907, gives his experience of life among the Pygmies of the Congo Forest, and describes them as “small dark-coloured people under the middle height.”

Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston, also in 1907, returned to civilisation through the Congo Forest and the volcanic region of Mfumbiro, and says the tops of the extinct volcanoes are covered with dense bamboo and inhabited by a Pygmy race.

In Central Mexico we have relics of a Pygmy people, the dried head of one being offered in Mr. Steven’s London auction room this year (1907).

The last surviving Aztecs, a very diminutive people, we remember to have seen exhibited in Manchester thirty years ago.

All these instances point to diminutive or Pygmy races of men scattered over the world.

As the literature on this subject is so limited, we venture to name the authorities quoted:—

Herodotus. Pliny. Homer. Philostratus. Aristotle. British Museum, _Guide to Stone Age_, by C. H. Read, Esq. Dr. Colley March, of Rochdale. W. H. Sutcliffe, Esq., of Littleborough, Lancashire. The Rev. Reginald A. Gatty, LL.B., of Hooton Roberts, Doncaster. Dr. Sturge, formerly of Nice, now of Mildenhall, Cambridge. The late A. C. Carlleyle, Esq., of the Archæological Survey of India. M. de Pierpoint, of Brussels. M. Thieullen, of Paris. Sir John Evans. Professor Boyd Dawkins. Professor Windle, of Birmingham. Major Powell Cotton. Dr. A. F. R. Wollaston. Vincent A. Smith, Esq., M.A.

THE BRONZE AGE IN LINCOLNSHIRE

The earliest appearance of bronze in Britain is put down at 2000 B.C.

As we have already stated this period is divided into Early and Late Periods by specialists.

Specimens of both periods have been found in many parts of the county, and so far as we have been able to trace them, we have compiled the following list of places where they have been discovered:—

Anwick. Barton-on-Humber. Billinghay. Boston, B.M. *Branston, B.M. Brigg. Broughton. Burringham. Caythorpe. Caenby. Crosby. Crowle. Crowland. Elsham. Fleet. Flixborough. Fiskerton. Gainsborough. Halton, West, B.M. *Haxey, B.M. Horncastle, B.M. Kelsey, South. Kyme, South. Langton. Leasingham. *Lincoln. *Nettleham. Newport, Lincoln. Owersby, North. *Reepham. Roxby, B.M. Scothorne. Scunthorpe, B.M. Sleaford. Toynton, B.M. Washingborough. Winghale, B.M. Winterton. Winteringham. Wrawby. *Witham River.

Those marked with an asterisk (*) are to be seen in the County Museum at Lincoln. Those marked B.M. are in the British Museum.

The objects found include swords, celts (socketed and unsocketed), arrow-heads, spear-heads, palstaves, adzes, knives, daggers, circular shields, armlets, bracelets, bridle bits, trumpet, horse trappings (probably a peytrel at Caenby).

These show progress in the art of man from rude plane castings to what may be called high art in decoration, as shown in the very elaborate shield from the river Witham, and now in the British Museum, figured in their catalogue to the Early Iron Age on page 90.

It is to this period that we must attribute many of the very fine pieces of pottery belonging to Mr. H. Preston, now deposited at the Lincoln Museum. It consists of cinerary urns, drinking cups, food vessels, incense cups, and other forms of vessels.

The places where this early class of pottery has been found in the county, so far as we have been able to compile it, is as follows:—

*Billinghay. Caythorpe. Denton. Donnington. *Dunston. Ferriby, South. Heighington. Horncastle. Kirton in Lindsey. Lincoln. Manton. Normanton. *Potterhanworth. Scotter. Willingham, North. Woolsthorpe.

Those marked with an asterisk (*) are to be seen in the County Museum at Lincoln.

All this pottery is made of burnt clay in an open fire.

CLOTHING OF THE PEOPLE IN THE BRONZE AGE

In the one instance where a body has been found with clothing at Haxey in the Isle of Axholme, it was that of a woman dressed in skins with sandals on her feet. Cæsar’s statement in