Kit's Coty House

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 [1]. Constructed circa 4000 BCE, during the Early Neolithic period of British prehistory, today it survives in a ruined state [1]. Archaeologists have established that the monument was built by pastoralist communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to Britain from continental Europe [1]. 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 [1]. Of these, it lies near to both Little Kit's Coty House and the Coffin Stone on the eastern side of the river [1]. The surviving part of the monument represents three stones covered by a capstone [1]. The mound and flanking ditches have largely been ploughed flat but remain visible from aerial photographs [1].