The Coldrum Stones - Pilgrims Way / North Downs Way
This really is a picture taken in Kent and not Wiltshire- looking due east towards the Medway Gap with the sun setting behind.
These wonderful sarsen stone megaliths were once thought to be part of a closed burial chamber set inside a square of smaller stones, which enclosed a burial mound.
Jacquetta Hawkes 'A Guide to prehistoric and Roman Monuments in England and Wales' p. 68 1978, informs the reader that the chamber was re-excavated in 1910 and the bones found within were the only surviving relics from any of the Kentish neolithic graves.
The capstone is missing but visitors to Kits Koty House, another neolithic burial chamber to be found on the Pilgrims Way just above Aylesford still has the capstone in place. Kits Coty House and other Medway megaliths can be seen on day one of Walk Awhile's 'Walking the Pilgrims Way' walking holiday that takes visitors 45 miles from the cathedral at Rochester along the North Downs Way National Trail to Canterbury.
