Little Kit's Coty House

Little Kit's Coty House, also known as Lower Kit's Coty House and the Countless Stones, is a chambered long barrow located near to 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]. Archaeological evaluation trenching in 1989 found no clear evidence of any surrounding quarry ditch which would normally have been excavated to provide material for a covering barrow [1]. In 2005, Philp and Dutto noted that there were about 21 stones at the site [1]. Many of these would have once formed part of a chamber at the eastern end of a long, rectangular earthen mound [1]. The sarsens found at Little Kit's Coty House are among the largest known from the Medway Megaliths [1].