Kit's Coty House

Local nameKit's Coty House
LocationAylesford, UK

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 British prehistory, today it survives in a ruined state.

Archaeologists have established that the monument was built by pastoralist communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to Britain from continental Europe. Although representing part of an architectural tradition of long barrow building that was widespread across Neolithic Europe, Kit's Coty House belongs to a localised regional variant of barrows produced in the vicinity of the River Medway, now known as the Medway Megaliths. Of these, it lies near to both Little Kit's Coty House and the Coffin Stone on the eastern side of the river. Three further surviving long barrows, Addington Long Barrow, Chestnuts Long Barrow, and Coldrum Long Barrow, are located west of the Medway.

Tags Long BarrowNeolithicEnglish HeritageMegalithArchaeological Site
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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit's_Coty_House

Official Website https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=358

Address ME20 7, United Kingdom

Coordinates 51°19'11.613" N 0°30'10.811" E

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