Coffin Stone
The Coffin Stone is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the English county of Kent.
The stone is one of the Medway megaliths lying 400 metres (440 yd) west of the Countless Stones (Little Kit Coty's House). It is a rectangular stone lying flat and measuring 4.4 metres (14 ft) long and 2.8 metres (9.2 ft) wide. Two much smaller stones lie nearby.
In 1836 local farmers found 'a sack of bones' underneath the stone. The only record of this is written; the bones are not able to be located and all other evidence is presumed destroyed. It is possibly the remains of a chambered long barrow. Further archaeological excavation was carried out in the summer of 2008 and the evidence did not suggest this, but was inconclusive.
The field is currently being planted as a vineyard and it is planned to allow public access as part of this.[1]
In 1893, the antiquarian George Payne described the monument in his Collectanea Cantiana, noting that locally it was known as both the Coffin Stone and the General's Stone.[2]
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References
Footnotes
- ^ "The Aylesford Megalithic Cluster". Aylesford Parish Council. Archived from the original on 2009-09-10. Retrieved 2009-08-28.
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{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Lewis, A.L. (1878). "On a Rude Stone Monument in Kent". The Journal of the Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 7: 140–142. JSTOR 2841379.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Lewis, A.L. (1904). "The Coldrum Monument". Man. 4. Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland: 395. JSTOR 2839987.
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{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Payne, George (1893). Collectanea Cantiana: Or, Archæological Researches in the Neighbourhood of Sittingbourne, and Otherparts of Kent. London: Mitchell and Hughes.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Petrie, W.M. Flinders (1880). "Notes on Kentish Earthworks". Archaeologia Cantiana. 13: 8–16.
{{cite journal}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Philp, Brian; Dutto, Mike (2005). The Medway Megaliths (third ed.). Kent: Kent Archaeological Trust.
{{cite book}}: Invalid|ref=harv(help) - Smith, Martin; Brickley, Megan (2009). People of the Long Barrows: Life, Death and Burial in the Early Neolithic. Stroud: The History Press. ISBN 978-0752447339.
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