Coffin Stone

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The site today. The topmost stone was placed there recently by the farmer and the actual Coffin Stone is just visible beneath.
The site today. The topmost stone was placed there recently by the farmer and the actual Coffin Stone is just visible beneath.

The Coffin Stone is the name given to a megalith at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the English county of Kent.

Situated 400 m north west of the Countless Stones. It is a rectangular sarsen stone lying flat and measuring 4.4 m long and 2.8 m wide. Two much smaller stones lie nearby and the outline of the former barrow has been identified.

In 1836 local farmers found two human skulls underneath the stone. It is almost certainly the remains of a chambered long barrow and is one of the Medway megaliths.

[edit] See also

 This article relating to archaeology in Europe is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.