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Discussing the question of the position of these megalithic 

 remains, Mr. Bennett remarks, " This we have noticed is 

 along a north and south line in the case of Coldrum and 

 Addington, and also in the case of Horstead, Kit's Coty, and 

 countless stones. North again of Coldrum are some thirty 

 sarsen stones, some of large size, in a hole in Cockadamshaw 

 Wood ; and half a mile north of Cobham Church the remains 

 of another stone circle, a total of five megaliths along a north 

 and south line. This fact at once recalled to our mind that 

 we had noted many years ago that Avebury, Silbury, and the 

 stone circle south of it known as Little Stonehenge, were 

 along a north and south line, and were in each case one mile 

 apart, as Coldrum is from Addington." Mr. Bennett gives 

 plans showing north and south position of Avebury, Stone- 

 henge, &c, and also the Kentish megaliths. 



The chapters on historical Ightham have been contributed 

 by Mr. J. Scott Temple, and the interesting old Mote House 

 has been described by Mr. Edward Filkins. The first re- 

 corded owner of the mote was Sir Ivo de Haut (temp. 1180), 

 a table shows the subsequent owners. In 1483 it was 

 in the possession of Sir Robert Brackenbury, Governor of the 

 Tower of London, who was killed at the battle of Bosworth 

 Field. 



The ossiferous fissures of the valley of the Shode are dealt 

 with by Mr. W. Lewis Abbott, who remarks that " four 

 years before the commencement of the working of these 

 fissures, Professor Prestwich brought out his classic text- 

 book, in which he gives the total number of vertebrates from 

 the Pleistocene caves and fissures as thirty-seven. But the 

 Ightham fissures have brought the list up to over one hundred 

 species. Nor is the invertebrate list very much less interest- 

 ing, opening up, as it does, so many problems of great 

 importance in connection with present day non-marine 

 mollusca." 



The most noteworthy of the mollusca discovered in these 

 fissures is Hygvomia umbrosa, Partsch, a species new to Britain. 



