The Coffin Stone, also known as the Coffin and the Table 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
horizontally on the ground, the stone probably once stood upright nearby. Various archaeologists
have argued that the stone was part of a now-destroyed chambered long barrow constructed in
the fourth millennium BC, during Britain's Early Neolithic period.
If a chambered long barrow did indeed previously exist on the site, it would have been built
by pastoralist communities shortly after the introduction of agriculture to Britain from continental
Europe. Long-barrow building was an architectural tradition widespread across Neolithic Europe. It
consisted of various localized regional variants; one of these was in the vicinity of the River Medway,
examples of which are now known as the Medway Megaliths. The Coffin Stone lies on the eastern
side of the river, not far from the chambered long barrows of Little Kit's Coty House, Kit's Coty
House, and the (now destroyed) Smythe's Megalith. Three other examples, the Coldrum Long
Barrow, Addington Long Barrow, and Chestnuts Long Barrow, remain on the western side of the
river.
The Coffin Stone is a rectangular slab lying flat 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. Two smaller stones lie nearby and
another large slab is now located atop it. In the 1830s it was reported that local farmers found
human bones near the stone. An archaeological excavation of the site led by Paul Garwood took
place in 2008–09; it found that the megalith 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 location, and
noted that the Coffin Stone might once have stood upright in the vicinity.