A NEOLITHIC COMMUNITY OF KENT 
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wards, we see the same valley of the Medway opening 
out before us as it did before him, except that the smoke 
which sweeps towards us from the cement works of the 
gorge, by which the Medway makes its way northwards 
through the Downs to reach the Thames, was unknown 
in his time. When we reach the monument, a little 
distance short of the Downs, we see that it is not as 
Neolithic man left it. Time and circumstance have 
Fig. 2. ^Megalithic monument at Coldrum viewed from the east 
(Dr Stanley Beale). 
defaced it. We pass the farm and reach the raised 
corner of a field on which the monument stands. Half 
a mile further to the north is the Pilgrims' Way along the 
foot of the steep escarpment. We climb the slope that 
takes us to the main or central chamber situated on the 
eastern side of the monument (fig. 2). 
The great stone which closed the eastern end has 
fallen forwards and exposed the interior of the chamber, 
or as we may now name it — for the nature of such 
