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Alastair Oswald

Archaeologist

Oct 8, 2026

2:12
So you started collecting etchings of ancient monuments.
2:15
Yeah, and that developed into collecting monuments of Kent as well.
2:19
And this one ticks both those boxes because this is Kit's Coty House on the North Kent Downs, which is a... roughly 6,000-year-old chambered tomb, the remains of a long barrow, Neolithic long barrow.
2:36
Some of the names we're going to be talking about, they're just sort of quaint and pretty.
2:41
But in this one, I think we can really see how...
2:45
Elizabethan antiquaries are sort of grasping for meaning in these names and trying to understand the past, partly through the place names.
2:54
One of the early theories that antiquarians liked to go to Celtic place name meanings, so that they came up with Cytom and thought that this was a tomb in the woods.

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28:28
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