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Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Coldrum Alternative Name: Coldrum Stones
Country: England County: Kent Type: Chambered Tomb
Nearest Town: Rochester  Nearest Village: Troseley
Map Ref: TQ65446072  Landranger Map Number: 177
Latitude: 51.321528N  Longitude: 0.372855E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
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5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
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beagle visited on 27th Jul 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Lovely spot

kantonkats visited on 29th Nov 2022 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 3 Access: 5

NigelS visited on 7th Jun 2020 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 5 Access: 3

Skywalker visited on 22nd Jun 2019 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4 Participated in the Kent Gorsedd, summer solstice celebration. Site has an ambience and presence , especially when nobody else around

Brian_Eyes visited on 1st Feb 2017 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 5 Access: 3

ocifant visited on 12th Oct 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Access: 3 Had the place to myself early on a Sunday morning. Sad to see the grass is still blackened from a fire after all these years. Why do people do it? If you must hold rituals, use a firebowl.

NickyD visited on 1st Mar 2014 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 2

TigerFlea visited on 13th May 2012 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3

Majick123 visited on 1st Apr 2012 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 3 There is some parking provided by the National Trust, but from there the walk is on an unmade path and through a field, so if you can avoid going on a wet day that would be best! Upon reaching the site, the mood is amazing with the wind rustling through the trees and the ribbons and bells tied to one of the trees. The National trust have provided steps and a path around the monument and also signs and information. The first time I walked up the steep stairs and saw the stones it took my breath away! I feel privileged to live so close to this site, and amazed that I did not know about the site until I was 32 years of age!

wildtalents visited on 1st Jun 2003 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3 An amazing site: a really steeply banked mound with the chambered tomb about two-thirds the way up - I've never seen anything quite like it. There are a number of decent sized kerb stones around the front part of the mound which a nearby sign describes as a stone circle. The mound kind of merges with the landscape at the back so you can walk around the gentler slope to the left and sit up top looking down upon the tomb.

coldrum visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Andy B: would like to visit Featured in Episode Two of BBC's History of Ancient Britain with Neil Oliver

Twistytwirly visited - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 3

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Condition: 3 Ambience: 4.18 Access: 3.33

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Coldrum submitted by Eric Jones : View of remains of Coldrum neolithic burial chamber, Kent. Shame there's no crop circle in the background to finish the pic off. (Vote or comment on this photo)
This long barrow is the best preserved of the Kent megalithic tombs and lies about 1/2km from the Pilgrim's Way, clearly signposted from Trottiscliffe village. It is looked after by the National Trust and the public has full access at no charge. It can only be reached on foot.

It is situated overlooking the Medway Valley and is orientated east-west with a rectangular burial chamber of four large sarsens at the east end. The eastern side has fallen down the slope, but the chamber remains and has been partially restored. The mound is surrounded by medium sized sarsen stones which form a peristalith and is about 20 metres long. At the turn of the century there was still a medial stone in the burial chamber.

The site has been excavated many times, one excavation producing the bones of 20+ individuals of varying ages and both sexes.

The barrow apparently takes its name from the nearby farmhouse "Coldrum Lodge" built in 1796. (The farmhouse is no longer there). No earlier forms of the name are recorded.

Nowadays Coldrums is still used as a place for meditation and quiet thought, and the solstices and equinoxes are celebrated here. The overhanging tree is bright with pretty ribbons, corndollies, and other little gifts.

(text taken from the defunct 'Kent in Kaos' web site)

Kent Archaeological Society have completed digitising their archive of back issues of the journal Archaeologia Cantiana. You can access the archive of 132 volumes, each one comprising several hundred pages of papers, reviews and articles from 1858 up to 2013 here. See the comment below for a good example of the contents - Coldrum Revisited and Reviewed by Paul Ashbee from 1998

Note: Recent multi isotope analysis of bones from early 20th Century excavations at Coldrum has revealed that as well as being very early Neolithic, the site was also re-used for burial in the early medieval period. More in the comments
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Coldrum submitted by baxter : My first visit to a sacred site. What an experience. This was taken about 7pm in early July. The weather was very 'quiet' and matched the feeling of Coldrum well, which I hope I have captured in this photo. This had to be a quick visit but i plan to go back soon. (2 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Coldrum submitted by Bladup : Coldrum chambered longbarrow. This Original Artwork in a glass frame is £39.99 + Postage (Just whatever it costs), and is 15 and a half cm x 12 cm. A limited (to a 100) edition print in a 8" x 10" glass frame would be £19.99 + £2.90 postage, E-mail me at [email protected] if interested. (1 comment - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Coldrum submitted by thecaptain : View of the main chamber of Coldrum looking east over the Medway Gap. I reckon that rainbow ends on the Countless Stones. What treasure lies underneath them ? (3 comments - Vote or comment on this photo)

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Coldrum submitted by Bladup : Coldrum chambered longbarrow. (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Coldrum submitted by DrewParsons : September 2007

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Coldrum submitted by enkidu41 : The surviving sarsens of the chamber of large oval-shaped mound tomb, now virtually disappeared. This is the rear of the east-facing chamber. TQ 654 607

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Coldrum submitted by Bladup : Coldrum chambered longbarrow.

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Coldrum submitted by Majick123 : Coldrum Long Barrow, Trottiscliffe, Kent. Looking out over the Medway Valley.

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Coldrum submitted by Majick123 : Coldrum Long Barrow Looking over the Medway valley, with pagan offerings in the fore ground

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Coldrum submitted by Majick123 : Coldrum Long Barrow, Trottiscliffe, Kent

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Coldrum submitted by DrewParsons : Photo from a visit in September 2007 (1 comment)

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Coldrum submitted by SolarMegalith : Coldrum Long Barrow - view from the West (photo taken on July 2008).

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Coldrum submitted by enkidu41 : TQ 654 607 The surviving sarsens of the chamber of large oval-shaped mound tomb, now virtually disappeared. This is the east-facing entrance of the chamber. (1 comment)

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Coldrum submitted by howardkingsnorth : Approx. 2pm, December 12th 2021.

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Coldrum submitted by NickyD : Coldrum Image copyright: stonesearcher, hosted on Flickr and displayed under the terms of their API.

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Coldrum submitted by miked : This 6000 year old burial chamber near Trottiscliffe is the most intact of the burial chambers in the Medway valley , it is thought to have been named after Coldrum Lodge Farm House (now demolished) but may be a corruption of the Cornish word "Galdrum" meaning place of enchantments on the late summer afternoon i last visited i could quite believe it!

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Coldrum submitted by DrewParsons : September 2007

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Coldrum submitted by SolarMegalith : Burial chamber of Coldrum Long Barrow - view from the NE (photo taken on July 2008).

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Coldrum submitted by slumpy : From low down on the newly-exposed North side looking across the main chamber of the monument.

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Coldrum submitted by thecaptain : Coldrum chambered tomb. The main chamber from the south

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Coldrum submitted by thecaptain : View looking east over the Coldrum chambered tomb. (1 comment)

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Coldrum submitted by Antonine : 2009

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Coldrum submitted by Antonine : Taken at dawn just after a Winter Solstice, 2013

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Coldrum submitted by Antonine : Taken at dawn just after Winter Solstice, 2013

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Recent re-dating of bones from 1910 excavation at Coldrum by Andy B on Tuesday, 05 December 2023
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Recent multi isotope analysis of bones from early 20th Century excavations at Coldrum that were in the Natural History Museum has revealed that the site was also re-used for burial in the early medieval period.

Excavated in 1910, the site of Coldrum in Kent is one of the earliest sites associated with the transition to farming in Britain. The interpretation of this site is therefore key to understanding how agriculture began. Using isotope analysis we show that although the human skeletal collections attributed to Coldrum do contain some of the earliest dated Neolithic human remains in Britain, they also contain the remains of individuals of fifth to seventh centuries AD date. We evaluate subsistence and mobility patterns of early Neolithic populations and provide new information about the origins of those individuals in the collection that date to the fifth to seventh centuries AD.

Open Access Paper here:
Provenancing antiquarian museum collections using multi-isotope analysis
Samantha Neil , Jane Evans, Janet Montgomery, Rick Schulting and Chris Scarre
doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220798
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsos.220798
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A demographic analysis of Early Neolithic mortuary practice in south-east England by Andy B on Thursday, 06 July 2023
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A demographic analysis of mortuary practice across time and space in south-east England during the Early Neolithic period
PhD Thesis by Dawn Michelle West Cansfield, April 2019, University of Winchester.

In the study of past societies, differential ritual treatment of the dead can be indicative of
individuals’ identities in life. The archaeological record for burials in the Early Neolithic period (4000–3300 BC) comprises a disparate body of evidence collected over hundreds of years since the antiquarian investigations of the 18th century. As such, it poses certain challenges arising from the variety of archaeological methods deployed and the resultant data, and the different interpretative frameworks used over time as the discipline has developed and practices have gone in and out of fashion, and indeed as modern society itself has changed.

This research has found that there are some aspects of demographic variation geographically across the SE region and in the locations of burials, with causewayed enclosures comprising a more egalitarian burial population than long barrows. This regional variation seems to result from the temporal spread of cultural ideas at this time. Burial orientations and grave goods also highlight demographic differentiation and indicate potential localised practices and customs.

It is suggested that the archaeologically visible burial practices in the record for the Early Neolithic period of south-east England, which are limited in quantity, rather than memorialising the dead, may reflect an overriding concern with containment of deceased individuals of all demographic groups who were feared, perhaps due to their actions or relationships in life, for the protection of the living.

More:
https://winchester.elsevierpure.com/en/studentTheses/a-demographic-analysis-of-mortuary-practice-across-time-and-space
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https://web.archive.org/web/20221105200659/https://cris.winchester.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/2813462/Dawn_West_Cansfield_PhD_THESIS_Amended_Final.pdf
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The Pilgrims’ Way Revisited by Derek Bright by Andy B on Saturday, 25 May 2019
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The Pilgrims’ Way Revisited: The use of the North Downs main trackway and the Medway crossings by medieval travellers Derek Bright
http://www.kentarchaeology.ac/authors/DerekBright01.pdf
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    Re: The Pilgrims’ Way Revisited by Derek Bright by Hatty on Saturday, 25 May 2019
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    Mr Bright declares the trackway is natural yet agrees it is part of a long distance route (coast to coast as it happens) and mentions other well-known prehistoric trackways. Why wouldn't the North Downs Way also be manmade?
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Re: Coldrum by Andy B on Monday, 19 March 2018
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Refs from Pastscape - I think some of these should be online somewhere as I think parts of Kent Archaeological Society Archaeologia Cantiana are

(16) Kent Archaeological Society Archaeologia Cantiana
Holgate, R. The Medway Megaliths and Neolithic Kent. 97, 1981 Page(s)221-234

(17) Kent Archaeological Society Archaeologia Cantiana
Ashbee, P. The Medway Megaliths in perspective. 111, 1993 Page(s)57-111

(18) Kent Archaeological Society Archaeologia Cantiana
Ashbee, P. William Stukeley, The Kit's Coty House and his Coves: a note. 112, 1993 Page(s)17-24

(19) Kent Archaeological Society Archaeologia Cantiana
Ashbee, P. The Medway Megaliths in a European Context. 119, 1999 Page(s)269-84

(20) Kent Archaeological Society Archaeologia Cantiana
Ashbee, P. The Medway's Megalithic Long Barrows. 120, 2000 Page(s)319-345
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Re: Coldrum by Andy B on Monday, 28 September 2015
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The name ‘Coldrum’ comes from a farm lodge which lay nearby to the south, but which is now demolished. Using the National Library of Scotland facility to search older OS maps, shows that on the 1870 survey, the Coldrum site is marked as the remains of a stone circle.

https://heritageaction.wordpress.com/2014/10/17/a-prehistoric-a-z-the-coldrum-stones/
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Paper: Coldrum Revisited and Reviewed, by Paul Ashbee by Andy B on Tuesday, 14 July 2015
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Kent Archaeological Society have just completed digitising their archive of back issues of the journal Archaeologia Cantiana. You can access the archive of 132 volumes, each one comprising several hundred pages of papers, reviews and articles from 1858 up to 2013 here. Here's an example of the contents:

Coldrum Revisited and Reviewed, by Paul Ashbee in Archaeologia Cantiana Vol. 118
www.kentarchaeology.org.uk/arch-cant/vol/118/coldrum-revisited-and-reviewed
Kent Archaeological Society, a registered charity, was founded in September 1857. Until 1940 there were a few breaks in continuity but since then the journal has been published every year. The project is part of the society’s on-going exercise to make its resources and databases freely accessible on its website,
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Coldrum - Mayday by Anonymous on Tuesday, 21 April 2015
The Hartley Morris Men will be dancing at the stones at 5.30am (dawn) on 1st May as we have done for the past 40 years
http://www.hartleymorrismen.org.uk/
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Re: Coldrum by Andy B on Wednesday, 27 November 2013
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More than 100 years after the first thorough archaeological ‘dig’ at Coldrum Longbarrow, a prehistoric tomb at Trottiscliffe, Kent, images from 17 glass plate negatives recording the excavations and the human bones they unearthed have been conserved and scanned by Kent Archaeological Society volunteers.

Said Denis Anstey, head of IT for the society’s Visual Records Group: ‘The pictures were taken in 1910 and are among thousands of images of Kent dating from the early 18th century to the late 20th century that the KAS has collected since it was founded in 1857.

Some of them are now very delicate and they will inevitably continue to deteriorate with time, so it is very important that we keep them in digital format. This will enable us to offer the images to local historians, researchers and publishers long after the originals become too fragile to copy’.

Coldrum Longbarrow, probably built in the 40th century BC, is the best-preserved of the group of Early Neolithic structures near Maidstone known as the Medway Megaliths – the earliest prehistoric monuments surviving in Britain. When first explored, Coldrum was described as ‘a miniature Stonehenge’, as it was wrongly assumed that its stones had originally been set out in a circle - similar to the rings of stones that form the awe-inspiring World Heritage Site on Salisbury Plain.

Eventually it was realized that Coldrum’s stones marked a rectangular mound covering a communal grave. However Coldrum and Stonehenge have one thing in common; their builders used massive sarsen sandstone boulders, found in many places between Wiltshire and Kent. Coldrum, though, is more than 1,000 years older than Stonehenge.
The first prehistoric ‘finds’ at Coldrum were pot fragments, unearthed in 1856. Then, eight years later, along came Benjamin Harrison and Flinders Petrie of the Kent Archaeological Society.

Harrison was born in Ightham in 1837. He spent his entire adult life searching for evidence of Kent’s early inhabitants, after an inspirational visit to one of the Medway Megaliths, Kits Coty, while a pupil at the British School at Platt, near Sevenoaks. Petrie, born in 1853 in Charlton (then in Kent, now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich) was an eminent Egyptologist and archaeologist, whose many achievements included introducing, in 1877, the numbering sequence for Stonehenge’s stones that is still used today.

Together Harrison and Petrie measured and sketched Coldrum, paving the way for a more ambitious investigation in 1910 by Francis James Bennett of West Malling, a Fellow of the Geological Society of London. ‘No sooner had I put my fork in,’ wrote Bennett, ‘that I at once turned up some human bones, under only a few inches of soil’. He postponed further work for four months until his niece and her husband (a Mrs and Mr Lindsay) could help him keep and record his finds.

They found human bones and a skull containing teeth – no doubt to the delight of Mr Lindsay, a dental expert and craniologist. In August Edwin W Filkins, an architect who lived at Claphall, Gravesend, joined Bennett and together they completed the excavation. Some of the five skulls and bones from an estimated 22 adults and children were handed over to Sir Arthur Keith, anatomist and anthropologist, of the Royal College of Surgeons; others were donated to Maidstone Museum. In 1913 Bennett published his report and photographs of the ‘dig’ in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Filkins made plans and a model of Coldrum and presented them to Maidstone Museum. More human bones were found in 1922.

On July 10 1926 the National Trust bought Coldrum Longbarrow and dedicated it to the memory of Ben Harrison, its first archaeologist and historian. He first went there in 1864 and studied it for the next 57 years. He died in 1921, aged 83, having lived all his life in Ightham, where he ran a village store for 54 years and, above the shop, had a

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Hartley Morris men dancing at dawn on May 1st 2011 at the Coldrum Stones by coldrum on Friday, 27 April 2012
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Tuesday May 1st - BELTANE

05.30 am - The Coldrum Stones, Trottiscliffe
10.00 am - St George’s School, Wrotham
11.00 am - Sedley's School, Southfleet
12.00 pm - Gravesend Town Centre
1.00 pm - Ship & Lobster, Gravesend (DA12 2QB)

http://www.hartleymorrismen.org.uk/index2.asp
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    Re: Hartley Morris men dancing at dawn on May 1st 2011 at the Coldrum Stones by Anonymous on Friday, 27 April 2012
    May 1st 2011? How did it go?
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Meteor Sky Watch, Sun 13th Nov & Wed 14th March 2012 7pm, Coldrum Stones, Kent by Andy B on Monday, 31 October 2011
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(we don't often cover astronomy events but this looks good, found by their namesake Coldrum)

Meteor Sky Watch
Sun 13th Nov, 7pm, Coldrum Stones

Explore the winter sky under the expert guidance of one of Kent’s leading amateur astronomers. Learn the stories behind the constellations and how to use the signposts in the sky to fi nd your way through the wonders of the Universe.

Approx 2 hours. Minimum age 10 years. Please bring a torch covered with a red fi lm (such as a plastic red folder) as this enables you to still fi nd your way but not affect your ‘night eyes’. Wear warm clothes.

Event being held at Coldrum Stones, Pinesfield Lane,
Trottiscliffe, ME19 5EL.
Booking required.

Valley of Visions Landscape Partnership Scheme
The Cedars
Holborough Road
Snodland
Kent
ME6 5PW

Tel: 01634 242826
Fax: 01634 243639
Email: [email protected]

http://valleyofvisions.org.uk/Sun13thNov-MeteorSkyWatch.php

Spring Sky Watch Wed 14th March 2012, 7pm, Coldrum Stones, Kent

Wed 14th March 2012, 7pm, Coldrum Stones

Explore the spring sky under the expert guidance of one of Kent’s leading amateur astronomers. Learn the stories behind the constellations and how to use the signposts in the sky to find your way through the wonders of the Universe.

Approx 2 hours. Minimum age 10 years. Please bring a torch covered with a red film (such as a plastic red folder) as this enables you to still find your way but not affect your ‘night eyes’. Wear warm clothes.

Event being held at Coldrum Stones, Pinesfi eld Lane,
Trottiscliffe, ME19 5EL.
Booking required.

Valley of Visions Landscape Partnership Scheme
The Cedars
Holborough Road
Snodland
Kent
ME6 5PW


Tel: 01634 242826
Fax: 01634 243639
Email: [email protected]

http://valleyofvisions.org.uk/Wed14thMarch2012-SpringSkyWatch.php
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Hartley Morris Men Dancing at Coldrum Stones, May 1st 2010 by coldrum on Friday, 30 April 2010
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Hartley Morris men will be dancing at Coldrum on Saturday 1st May 2010 at dawn, 5.30am.

http://www.hartleymorrismen.org.uk/index2.asp
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Hartley Morris Men Dancing at Coldrum Stones, May 1st 2009 by coldrum on Sunday, 26 April 2009
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Hartley Morris Men Dancing at Coldrum Stones, May 1st 2009

Friday 1st May
Hartley Morris Men dancing at Coldrum stones , at dawn [5.32am]to welcome the sunrise to herald the start of Summer.

http://www.hartleymorrismen.org.uk/index2.asp
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Re: Coldrum by coldrum on Wednesday, 23 July 2008
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Pastscape entry:

"Remains of a Neolithic chambered tomb comprising the remnants of a sarsen chamber at the eastern end of an east-west orientated mound. The mound may have been kerbed with smaller sarsens. Some poorly recorded excavation occurred in 1856, some potsherds being found. More extensive examination of the chamber in 1910 recovered the bones of an estimated 22 individuals plus a sherd of pottery and a flint saw. Further bones were found in 1922. The monument has been in the care of the National Trust since 1926".

https://www.pastscape.org.uk/hob.aspx?hob_id=413311
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Coldrum by coldrum on Wednesday, 23 July 2008
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http://morganbd.blogspot.com/2008/05/couplea-weeks-ago-i-was-re-visiting.html
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The Druid Network by coldrum on Tuesday, 22 July 2008
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Coldrum information:

druidnetwork.org/what-is-druidry/beliefs-and-definitions/sacred-places/coldrum-stones/
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Images by coldrum on Tuesday, 22 July 2008
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Some images of the Coldrum Stones on Medway Megaliths Facebook group:

http://www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=15827919159&success#/group.php?gid=16912265058
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National Trust by coldrum on Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Nation Trust site entry on Coldrum:





nationaltrust.org.uk
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Morris dancing, May Day, at dawn 2008 by coldrum on Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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Hartley Morris will be dancing at Coldrum stone May day morning at dawn, 5.30am.

http://members.aol.com/hartleymorris/Hartley_Programme.html

http://www.kentramblers.org.uk/Tonbridge/walks_tonbridge.htm
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Folklore by coldrum on Tuesday, 29 April 2008
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A little known myth about this ancient monument is that it is the burial place of a Black Prince,who was killed it is said in a battle in the area and buried in the chamber.

There is a Black Prince in history but he was the son of Edward the Third and was buried in Canterbury Cathedral in 1376.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/black_prince.shtml

http://www.canterbury-cathedral.org/
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Re: Coldrum by TimPrevett on Monday, 12 March 2007
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Re: Coldrum by slumpy on Sunday, 27 March 2005
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On a visit today, I noticed that over the winter a lot of tree-clearance has taken place on the Northern side of the site, and that the field to the East has been opened up as alternative ground-level-no-steps access.

This field contains several markings which may or may not be connected [or even real], the first three photos on this page show what I mean [I hope].

The site is looking better and better each year - the clearance has exposed one side of the site previously overgrown, and revealed more stones.
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Coldrum by __chris__ on Sunday, 08 December 2002
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The partially-collapsed barrow is situated in the valley beneath the wooded North Downs, close to both the Pilgrims Way and the North Downs Way, both ancient tracks.

This site is easily reached, either by parking in the small carpark along the lane that is about 250 metres away or - more rewardingly - as part of a circular walk from the village of Trottiscliffe (pronounced "Trosely" !!) which has a couple of good pubs to offer.

As you approach, you stand at the base of the barrow, and can then take the steps up to the top. There is a "wishing tree" here, with small bows of fabric tied to it as offerings.

Unlike, say, the nearby Kits Coty / Little Kits Coty, there is at least something to see here and a reasonable degree of atmospere if no-one disturbs you.
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