Kentish Rag is the local name given to a grayish blue and occasionally arenaceous and cherty limestone, which occurs at Hythe and other places on the coast of Kent, in the Lower Greensand Measures. It is sometimes 60 to 80 feet thick.
Kentish Rag
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 414
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