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Small Flint Implements from Bungay

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THE small flint implements figured in the accompanying drawing were found in a sandy hollow about 2 feet deep at Bungay, in Suffolk. The sand in this hole was littered with minute flakes; in a few minutes I picked up between fifty and sixty, of which the figured ones are typical examples. I hesitate to describe the implements as “pigmy flints,” because their fine secondary chipping is not confined to the thicker edge or “back” of the flakes, but, judging from photographs I have seen, they closely resemble some pigmies found recently near Brighton by Mr. H. S. Toms. So far as the untrimmed flakes are concerned, it is impossible to distinguish them from typical pigmy flakes, while the trimming of implements 3 and 5 is identical with that of the pigmies.

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DUTT, W. Small Flint Implements from Bungay. Nature 77, 102–103 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/077102b0

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