MAIDSTONE. Round about Kits Coty House: an essay in popular topography. xi, 156pp., lithograph frontispiece and lithograph vignette on the half-title, with a printed slip explaining them tipped-in. Original green gilt stamped cloth, later paper label to the spine, but not recent. Wear to the foot of the spine. Related cutting dated 1885 on the rear end-paper, advert slip tipped-in at the front. Recent bookplate. Scarce, Worldcat records BL, Oxford, NLS, V & A., only. 12mo. Maidstone: C.J. Cooke. 1861. ~ Kit's Coty House and its neighbour, Little Kit's Coty House, are the remains of two megalithic 'dolmen' burial chambers. Kit's Coty is the larger of the two monuments, with three uprights and a massive capstone, while the smaller, Little Kit's Coty (also known as the Countless Stones), is now a jumble of sarsens. Although the origins of their names are unknown, what is certain is that long barrows such as these were initially constructed during the early Neolithic period to act as communal burial sites.