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We may remark that several printer's errors have escaped 

 correction in this chapter. 



There is a very useful bibliography of the principal works 

 dealing with the geology and the flint implements of the 

 Ightham district. In this connection it is stated that Professor 

 Maccurdy was incorrect in stating that the term " Eolithic " 

 was first used by the late Mr. J. Allen Brown. It would 

 appear that an " Eolithic Period," anterior to the Palaeolithic, 

 is recognised in the tabular " classification of Post-Tertiary 

 Times," by G. de Mortillet, in 1876, reproduced in the follow- 

 ing year by Professor T. Rupert Jones in his " Lecture on the 

 Antiquity of Man." Altogether this book, containing as it 

 does, much matter of a great deal more than local interest, is a 

 valuable addition to the history of British archaeology and 

 geology, and we cordially bring it to the notice of our readers. 



Description of Plate. By kind permission of the Homeland 

 Association. From photographs by Mr. H. Elgar, Maidstone. 

 " The Addington ' circle ' is in the form of a long oval, but 

 only some twenty-two stones can now be seen. Many of 

 these are at wide distances apart. At the east end of this 

 oval is the Dolmen. One of the stones — all of which are 

 large and compare thus with Coldrum — leans slightly, but the 

 rest, to the number of four, are lying flat. Some little dis- 

 tance further east, are two more smaller stones close together, 

 but their relation to the circle and Dolmen is not at all clear. 

 The much better known Dolmen of Kit's Coty House stands 

 as near as possible six miles due east of Coldrum and in full 

 view of it, and we have evidence that its former condition was 

 very different from its present one, for Mr. G. Payne, F.S.A., 

 at p. 127 of his 'Collectanea Cantiana,' gives a letter from 

 the Rev. W. E. Lukis, dated May 7th, 1883, stating that it 

 was ' formerly a mound,' and thaj: he had a letter written by 

 one Hercules Ayleward to Dr. Stukeley, in 1723, from Mere- 

 worth Castle, Kent, describing the upper and lower Coty 

 monuments as they existed at that time, together with 



