4 THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN 
West Mailing. He was then spending his leisure hours 
in busily interpreting the traces of ancient man in the 
county of Kent. The Coldrum Megalithic monument, 
to which we are now making our way, was the particular 
object of his attention in the year I have mentioned, 
1 910. It is true that my friend, Mr A. L. Lewis,^ had 
recognised the importance of the monument in 1877, 
and published an accurate plan of the arrangement of 
the stones ; but it was left for Mr Bennett to reveal its 
secrets and the light it could throw on the Neolithic 
NCyv oocK 
WEAL-D 
Fig. I. — A map of the part of Kent in which Coldrum is situated. 
inhabitants of Kent. To reach Coldrum we follow a 
farm traclc which opens from the main road before the 
village of West Mailing is reached. Before us, to the north, 
and some three miles distant, is the grey, dry pasture- 
land that clothes the sharp face of the North Downs. 
Sweep away the snug farms which lie sheltered in the 
weald below the Downs and on the uplands of the 
plateau above them, replace the hedged fields with little 
terraced cultivated plots, and we have before us exactly 
the country that Neolithic man inhabited four or five 
thousand years ago. On our right,Nas we proceed north- 
^ See/ourn. Atjthrop. Jnslitute, Nov. 1877. 
