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sketches. Kit's Coty is represented as being partly in a long 

 barrow and the lower structure in ruins. He states that the 

 former belonged to a Mr. John Taylor, 1 a lover of antiquity, 

 who would not for 100 guineas part with as much of the stone 

 as would serve to set in a ring.' The latter was owned by 



Kit's Coty House. 



Henry Beaumont, and was pulled down by the previous 

 owners, John French and John Frankham. Further north, at 

 about 80 yards from Kit's Coty, he speaks of a long rude 

 prostrate stone called ' The General's Tombstone,' and 

 further westward, towards the summit of the hill, in a coney 

 warren, ' a parcel of small stones in the form of arcs of 

 circles, and a double row of stGnes which he conjectures to be 

 an avenue.' " (From the " Story of Ightham," p. 48.) 



