the stones at Addington in his list of Kentish earthworks. In 1893, the antiquarian George Payne mentioned the monument in his Collectanea Cantiana, describing it as a "fallen cromlech" and noting that there were various other megaliths scattered in the vicinity, suggesting that these were part of the monument of another like it, since destroyed. In his 1924 publication dealing with Kent, the archaeologist O. G. S. Crawford, then working as the archaeological officer for the Ordnance Survey, listed Kit's Coty House alongside the other Medway Megaliths and reprinted one of Stukeley's engravings of it. The author George Orwell visited the site on 21 August 1938, as detailed in his domestic diary of that date. He describes it as "a druidical altar or something of the kind. ... The stones are on top of a high hill & it appears they belong to quite another part of the country." The stones are actually well down the slope of Blue Bell Hill, 1.32 km to the north. In January 1981, Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit carried out a survey of the site. Management by English Heritage Ashbee suggested that Kit's Coty House was "the best known" of the Medway Megaliths, while Champion thought it "perhaps the best-known monument in Kent". In 2005, Philp and Dutto referred to Kits Coty as an "important monument" that was "amongst the best known in Britain". References Footnotes Bibliography External links Photo and location map Pictures and personal experiences of Kit's Coty House at The Modern Antiquarian The tomb's association with Catigern Further research and history: English Heritage Archaeological sites in Kent Stone Age sites in Kent Tonbridge and Malling Tourist attractions in Kent Scheduled monuments in Kent English Heritage sites in Kent Dolmens in England Barrows in England