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TRANSACTIONS 
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THE CROYDON NATURAL HISTORY AND 
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY. 
1904—1905. 
11.—Norte on Bronze PaustavE FOUND AT WARLINGHAM. 
By C. H. Goopman. 
(Read April 19th, 1904.) 
In December, 1900, a paper was read before this Society by 
Mr. Robarts, in which he described some bronze implements 
found at Beddlestead, in the parish of Chelsham. We have now 
to put on record another find from the same parish, about a mile 
eastward of the former position. The Oldhaven Béds on Worms 
Heath are dug for gravel for local use, and while a man named 
Levings was engaged in this work he found a bronze palstave 
under a bed of peat some four inches in thickness. It is 53 in. 
long, and weighs 120z. The cutting edge is 24 in. in diameter, 
with a well-marked central rib, the blade being somewhat 
strongly pitted. This implement represents an earlier period 
in the evolution of the axe than those found at Beddlestead, as 
the latter were socketed and furnished with the well-known loop. 
It is being preserved by Mr. Lockton, of Warlingham. 
