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of Neolithic man at Coldrum. "No sooner," he writes,^ 
" had I put my fork in near the west wall than I at once 
turned up, and under only a few inches of chalky soil, 
some human bones. This find I kept to myself, and 
determined to do no more without someone present to 
keep and record further finds in an area apparently so full 
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Fig. 3. — Surface-plan of the Coldrum monument, from a survey made by 
Mr E. W. Filkins. 
of human remains." With the consent of the Lord of 
the Manor, Mr Nevill, and with the assistance of Mr 
E. W. Filkins, Mr G. Payne of Rochester, Mr F. W. 
Reader, Mr and Mrs Lindsay, and Miss Harkcr, Mr 
Bennett made a systematic examination of the central 
chamber. Besides human bones, only a few fragments 
of a rude pottery and a flint saw were found. Not a 
' four?!. Roy. Anthrop. Insiii., 1913, vol. xliii. p. 81. 
