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The Atlas Obscura Guide To Kent

4 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Kent, England

Updated February 20, 2025
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The Quintain on Offham Green.

Offham, England

Offham Quintain

Horsemen once used this tilting post during jousting practice.
Congolese Kuyu sculptures.

Birchington-on-Sea, England

Powell-Cotton Ethnographic Collection

A vast archive of cultural artifacts collected from numerous expeditions across Africa and Asia.
Statue of King Æthelberht

Kent, England

Queen Bertha and King Æthelberht

Today, Kent's medieval monarchs hold court on a busy pedestrian thoroughfare—or at least their statues do.
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Two members of the Rolling Stones frozen forever in bronze.
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Maidstone’s Mummy, Ta-Kush, is 2,700 years old. All photos by Alan Tigwell.

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Maidstone Mummy

This 2,700-year-old woman is the jewel of the Maidstone Museum's Egyptian collection.
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Kit’s Coty with backdrop of storm clouds gathering.

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Kit's Coty House

The Neolithic megalith was one of the first archaeological ruins protected by the British government.
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When a church becomes a laboratory.

Has the Case of the Missing Princess-Saint Been Solved?

Scientific evidence suggests that her bones had been hidden behind a church wall for a millennium.
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March 11, 2020
The ditch overlooks Pegwell Bay, a shallow inlet that may have been used as a landing site by Roman ships.

Found: The Site Where Julius Caesar May Have Landed in Britain

Is this Rome's first beachhead in the Isles?
by Vittoria Traverso, Atlas Obscura
November 29, 2017
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