| P number: | P208404 |
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| Old photograph number: | A08482 |
| Caption: | Neolithic monument, Kits Coty House, Kent. |
| Description: | Looking east at Kits Coty House showing a Neolithic monument standing on the lower slopes of the Chalk escarpment of the North Downs, the wooded crest of which can be seen rising in the distance. It is built of 'sarsens', massive blocks of fine quartzitic sandstone, the relicts of beds of presumably early Tertiary age. Sarsens are found locally on the plateau top of the Downs, where the outlier of Tertiary beds would have originally occurred, and also as constituents of the rubbly solifluction deposits, or Head, coating this part of the escarpment. As the climate ameliorated early in the Holocene hunters exploited the herds of red deer that migrated from the continent. Britain did not finally become an island until 8000 years BP. Neolithic (New Stone Age) immigrants arrived long after Britain had become separated from the continent. The River Thames was an important route. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jun 01 00:00:00 BST 1950 |
| Photographer: | Rhodes, J. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| X longitude/easting: | 574400 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 160400 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 299.52 KB; 1000 x 717 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 190 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Images from the archives, Geoscience subjects/ Archaeology and early history |
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