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
Kit's Coty House
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Kit's Coty House or Kit's Coty is a chambered long barrow near the village of Aylesford in the southeastern English county of Kent. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of Bri
Coffin Stone
…as the Medway Megaliths. The 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 monument with the Medway Valley behind
The back slab of the megalith, engraved with much graffiti.
Stukeley's 1722 prospect of Kit's Coty House with its remnant long barrow still just visible and labelled "The Grave"