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Article: The villages of Kent have more to lament than the Channel rail link
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 6, 1994
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KIT'S COTY House is a tomb. Several gigantic stone slabs, some
upright and some laid across them as a roof, are all that remains
of a Neolithic burial chamber. A few hundred yards down the slope
of the North Downs is Little Kit's Coty, a jumble of fallen 10-ton
blocks and slabs which once formed another chieftain's grave.
This is where the Channel rail link will run. The monuments
stand on a foothill of the North Downs, just where their chalk
ridge is broken by the Medway river valley. From Kit's Coty House,
you can see for miles towards Sevenoaks and the Weald. Victorian
antiquaries and romantic trippers loved to sit here and enjoy a
family picnic, day-dreaming about the "Druids" they ...