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The more important finds of neolithic implements will be noted in the topographical list at the end of this article, but one or two special features are worthy of notice here.

The first is the discovery of a large number of neatly chipped flint arrow-heads at Linton, a parish about 4 miles to the south of Maidstone. No less than sixty-five examples of these objects, which are usually very rare in Kent, are now in the Maidstone Museum.

Another remarkable feature of the neolithic remains in Kent is the comparative abundance of roughly chipped celt-like implements, from 6 in. to 8 in. in length, and of considerable weight. Besides the examples recorded by Sir John Evans from Shoreham and other places, the present writer has found several objects of this character at West Wickham. There seems good reason to believe that they were hoes or somewhat analogous implements for agricultural purposes.

An important class of remains of this interesting age are the megalithic monuments associated with burials, and these will be dealt with in the following section.

All the megalithic remains of Kent are situated in the central part of the county, in the neighbourhood of Maidstone. Precisely speaking, the district in which they lie is bounded on the east by Boxley, and on the west by Wrotham, the river Medway running through it.

Though not remarkable numerically, these antiquities are of great archæological importance. It is probable that they are all of sepulchral origin, and in two cases the original characters have been sufficiently retained to enable antiquaries to refer them without hesitation to the Neolithic Age. The other megalithic structures, which have fallen, were probably reared for a similar purpose, and there is reason to think that the various members of the whole group belong practically to the same period, and were constructed for sepulchral purposes. Rh