The Coffin Stone is a large sarsen stone at the foot of Blue Bell Hill near Aylesford in the south-eastern English county of Kent. Now lying prone on the ground, the stone is a rectangular slab that measures 4.42 metres (14 ft 6 in) in length, 2.59 metres (8 ft 6 in) in breadth, and about 0.61 metres (2 ft) in width. Another large slab now rests on it, and two smaller stones are nearby. The megalith lies on the eastern side of the River Medway, not far from the chambered long barrows of Little Kit's Coty House and Kit's Coty House constructed in the fourth millennium BCE, during Britain's Early Neolithic period. An archaeological excavation of the site led by Paul Garwood in 2008 and 2009 found that the Coffin Stone was only placed in its present location in the 15th or 16th centuries. The archaeologists found no evidence of a chambered long barrow at the site. In the 1830s it was reported that local farmers found human bones near the stone.
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1708:
Queen Anne withheld royal assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, in the most recent occasion where a British monarch vetoed an act of Parliament. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_assent
1845:
Māori forces, led by chiefs Te Ruki Kawiti and Hōne Heke, attacked the British settlement of Kororāreka, New Zealand, beginning the Flagstaff War. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flagstaff_War
1993:
The U.S. Senate unanimously confirmed Janet Reno as the country's first female attorney general. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janet_Reno
2010:
During the inauguration of Chilean president Sebastián Piñera, an earthquake registering 6.9 MW struck the O'Higgins Region near the city of Pichilemu, causing widespread damage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pichilemu_earthquake
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