Mr. N. F. Robarts on Stone and Bronze Celts 51 
150.—Sronz anp Bronze CEeLtTs RECENTLY DISCOVERED IN 
Croypon anp NrIGHBOURHOOD. 
By N. F. Rosarrs, F.G.S. 
(Read December 18th, 1900.) 
AurnoueH there have been various finds of flint implements at 
Croydon, I cannot trace that any polished celts have been found 
here at all equalling those which our Vice-President, Dr. J. M. 
Hobson, has lately secured, and I think it is therefore desirable 
that the find should be recorded. At the same time, as there 
are several workers in this field, I have thought it might be as well 
to collate the records of previous finds, so that the particulars 
of same may be conveniently referred to for future guidance. 
In our own ‘Transactions’ we have the paper by Mr. Alex- 
ander J. Hogg, ‘‘ The Flint Implements of Addington”’;* and 
our member Mr. George Clinch, F.G.S., has described a number 
of specimens in his paper, ‘‘ Prehistoric Man in the Neighbour- 
hood of the Kent and Surrey Border: Neolithic Age.’’} 
Beyond these papers I can only find the following :—In ‘ My 
Garden,’} Mr. Smee wrote as follows :—‘ Flint instruments are 
found over the district, but not in great numbers. Mr. J. Wick- 
ham Flower, of Croydon, has a very fine collection, and is an 
authority on the subject. He lent me a specimen tu figure, which 
was found at Croydon.’ The specimen is so badly figured that 
it is impossible to say whether it is a celt or a scraper. “ He 
also found specimens of scrapers at Haling Park, which he 
regards as authentic.’’ The specimen figured is a fair scraper. 
“‘Mr. Cressingham has also picked up a Celtic worked stone on 
the downs south of my garden.”’ This, from the figure, appears 
to be a well-polished celt, but I cannot help noticing the un- 
fortunate confusion in the mind of the author between a stone 
celt and a Celtic stone, and my calling attention to it will, I 
hope, prevent any of our members from falling into a similar error. 
The only other reference I find is in Mr. J. Corbet Anderson’s 
* Croydon, Prehistoric and Roman,’§ where he writes :—* Relics 
of the Neolithic or later stone age have been found at Croydon. 
A flint scraper was found in Haling Park.” Mr. Flower’s 
“‘serapers”’ are by this historian reduced to one. ‘‘ Some time 
since a stone celt was picked up out of the gravel in our parish” 
‘—by Mr. Francis Warren. Whether this was a paleolith or 
* Trans. Croydon Micros. and Nat. Hist. Club, 1898, p. 257. 
+ Journ. Anthrop. Inst. (x.s.), vol. ii, p. 124. 
{ ‘My Garden,’ Alfred Smee, F.R.S., 2nd edit. 1872. 
§ Anderson’s ‘ Croydon, Prehistoric and Roman,’ p. 17. 
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