Coffin Stone
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The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table Stone, is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Now lying horizontally
The site in 2017. The topmost stone was placed there by a farmer, and the Coffin Stone is beneath
The Coffin Stone in a vineyard
Detail of weathering on the Coffin Stone
Illustration of the Coffin Stone with a tree growing over it; published in John Thorpe's 1788 book Custumale Roffense
Smythe's Megalith
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Smythe's Megalith, also known as the Warren Farm Chamber, was a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Probably constructed in the 4th millenn
Coffin Stone
…lies on the eastern side of the river, not far from the chambered long barrows of Little Kit's Coty House, Kit's Coty House, and the (now destroyed) Smythe's Megalith. Three other examples, the Coldrum Long Barrow, Addington Long Barrow, and Chestnuts Long Barrow, remain on the western side of the river. The Coffin…
Clement Smythe's 1822 sketch of the chamber at Smythe's Megalith. It was destroyed the same day it was discovered.
The Smythe's Megalith chamber may have looked like the surviving (and reconstructed) example at Coldrum Long Barrow (pictured)
Smythe's Megalith was found on the lower slope of Blue Bell Hill.
The field in which Smythe's Megalith was found, photographed in February 2014