Kit’s Coty House
Kit’s Coty House is one of the oldest man-made structures in the Cross-Channel Geopark, which is thought to have been created around 6000 years ago.
Aylesford
Open all year round
Free
Dogs welcome
Geosite details
The main ‘house’ of Kits Coty is made up of four huge stones, three stood upright with one lying flat across the top of the others.
These stones are made of sarsen, the exact same type of rock that was used to create much of Stonehenge.
Although it’s use isn’t certain, experts generally agree that the structure you can see today was a kind of gateway to a huge burial mound that would have been up to 80 metres long and 15 metres wide. The people who created this site were living in what we now know as the Early Neolithic period, and were some of the first communities in Britain to switch from hunter-gathering to farming. Nearby you can find other sites including Little Kit’s Coty and the Countless Stones, and together all three sites are part of the ‘Medway Megaliths’ group of sites that can be found in this part of Kent.
