The Belgic Cremation site at Stone, Kent, was discovered during the week of January 31st to February 4th, 1939, by workmen engaged in quarrying operations in the Cotton Lane Pit, about one mile west of the village of Stone on the south bank of the Thames between Dartford and Greenhithe. The area is being worked by the Associated Portland Cement Company, who had the finds carefully collected and reported them to Mr S. Priest, F.G.S., Curator of the Dartford Public Museum. The writers are most indebted to Mr Priest for drawing their attention to the site at once, and for all the information he has supplied. The Committee of the Associated Portland Cement Company, through their Manager, Mr Double, most kindly arranged for us to visit the Pit, and lent us all the material for investigation. We should like to acknowledge here our thanks to them for their interest and co-operation and for rescuing this valuable evidence from the fate it so nearly suffered in the jaws of the mechanical excavator.

Cotton Lane Pit lies on the slope of the Boyne Hill (100 ft.) Terrace on the south bank of the Thames at about 85 O.D. (fig. 1). In this field the Terrace gravels slope away over an outcrop of Thanet sands which in places overlies the chalk. The pottery was found in a pocket of dirty ballast overlying clay loam on top of the chalk.