  New experimental data on the neutron single-particle character of the Pygmy
Dipole Resonance (PDR) in $^{208}$Pb are presented. They were obtained from
$(d,p)$ and resonant proton scattering experiments performed at the Q3D
spectrograph of the Maier-Leibnitz Laboratory in Garching, Germany. The new
data are compared to the large suite of complementary, experimental data
available for $^{208}$Pb and establish $(d,p)$ as an additional, valuable,
experimental probe to study the PDR and its collectivity. Besides the
single-particle character of the states, different features of the strength
distributions are discussed and compared to Large-Scale-Shell-Model (LSSM) and
energy-density functional (EDF) plus Quasiparticle-Phonon Model (QPM)
theoretical approaches to elucidate the microscopic structure of the PDR in
$^{208}$Pb.
