Kits Cotty House

Kits Cotty House, a fine megalithic structure on the slope of the North Downs near Aylesford, Kent. This dolmen consists of three upright stones, with a cap-stone measuring 11 feet by 8 feet. There is no satisfactory explanation of its name, but it is said traditionally to mark the burial-place of Catigern, who was slain in A.D. 455. All such structures are, however, probably far older. The stones are "sarsens" or "grey-wethers" from the Thanet sands which cap the neighbouring escarpment, and there are other similar but less perfect remains at Addington and elsewhere in the neighbourhood.