recently discovered in Croydon and Neighbourhood. 53 
the works I have mentioned, as none of those hitherto recorded 
have had oblique edges. It is of course possible that these im- 
plements are of very late manufacture, being found so near the 
Anglo-Saxon burials in Edridge Road. 
Bronze Hoard, Beddlestead, near Chelsham. 
Coming from the Stone to the Bronze Age, I have to call your 
attention to the specimens before you; but before describing 
them I desire again to collate for future use the information 
which exists regarding bronze implements in this neighbour- 
hood. 
Only two previous finds have been recorded. The first, a 
founder’s hoard, at Wickham Park, for which Mr. J. Corbet Ander- 
son’s ‘Croydon, Prehistoric and Roman’ is again my authority. 
Mr. Anderson writes :—‘‘ A number of articles in bronze were 
found im Wickham Park, and were deposited in the British 
Museum in the year 1855” by Lewis Loyd, Esq., J.P. ‘‘ The 
find included part of a spear-head, a portion of the handle of a 
dagger, fragment of a knife with socket, and also fragment of a 
matrix or mould for knife, a hammer, a cooped (sic) palstave, 
fragment of a gouge, and various broken bits of circular bronze 
cakes.” 
This hoard may be seen in the British Museum; it really 
consists of twenty-five pieces, some of which are referred to by 
our honorary member [Sir John Evans, K.C.B., &c.] in his 
standard work, ‘ Ancient Bronze Implements.’ The hoard in- 
cludes five lumps of bronze. 
The other find was described by our late member, Mr. J. Wick- 
ham Flower, F.G.S.* It consisted of a hoard discovered about 
1871 in preparing the ground for the foundation of a house 
nearly opposite the schoolroom, Beddington. ‘There were in all 
thirteen pieces, viz. three cakes or lumps of bronze, one gouge, 
two broken spear-heads, one half of a mould for casting bronze 
celts, and six celts. 
The hoard was found lying some eighteen inches below the 
surface, all huddled together. The relics, with the exception of 
one celt, which came into the possession of Mr. J. Corbet Ander- 
son, were until lately in the possession of our former member, 
Dr. Strong, who obtained them from Mr. Mathews, of the Old 
Town, who bought them as old metal, and long retained them. 
Dr. Strong kindly promised me some months ago that he would 
lend these interesting specimens to our museum, but he has un- 
fortunately been unable to find them, and believes that they were 
either lost or stolen when he removed from Croydon. Fortu- 
* Surrey Arch. Soc. Coll. vol. vi. 1874. 
+ Anderson’s ‘ Croydon, Prehistoric and Roman.’ 
