M V GARDEN. 



and is an authority on the subject. He lent me a specimen to figure 

 which was found at Croydon (fig. i). He also found specimens of 



scrapers at Haling Park (fig. 2), which he 

 regards as authentic. Mr. Cressingham 

 ^„ \ also picked up a Celtic worked stone on 

 the downs south of my garden (fig. 3). 

 In .Beddington Park numerous bronze celts 

 ha^ljbeen found (vig. xxix.), all proving that 

 the nipighbourhood' was early inhabited. 



Fig. 



Fig. 3. 



BEDDINGTON IN THE ROMAN PERIOD. 



The evidence of Roman occupancy is distinct, and has received 

 important confirmation by the discoveHes made in the year 1871 by 

 Mr. Addy, the resident engineer of the Croydon Board of Works. The 

 foundations of one Rornan house were exposed by workmen forming 

 an irrigation canal. Mr. Addy at once, from its mode of con.struction, 



Fig. 4.— Roman House at Beddington. 



knew it to be Roman, and carefully traced out the plan of the building. 

 He made the annexed sketch (fig. 4), which is minutely accurate. The 

 spot where the discovery was made is marked on the map (plate 3), on 



