Scheduled Ancient Monument: THREE BOWL BARROWS AND A RING DITCH, 700M SOUTH WEST OF REDHOUSE FARM: PART OF A BARROW CEMETERY ON LEVINGTON HEATH. (21289)

The monument includes three bowl barrows and a ring ditch within Levington barrow cemetery, situated on level ground 230m north west of the junction between the parish boundaries of Levington, to the west, Bucklesham to the north, and Stratton Hall to the south. The barrows are visible as three low, earthen mounds, marked also by light coloured, sandy patches in the ploughsoil, and are spaced approximately 10m apart in a north-south alignment. Each of the mounds is encircled by a buried ditch which is visible on aerial photographs. The southernmost mound stands to a height of approximately 0.25m and covers a circular area approximately 27m in diameter; the middle and northern mounds respectively measure approximately 0.4m and 0.3m in height, and cover circular areas approximately 30m in diameter. All three have been reduced and spread by ploughing. The surrounding ditches, from which earth was dug during construction of the barrows, have become completely infilled, but survive as buried features up to 3m wide beneath the ploughsoil and the spread of the mounds. Approximately 40m west of the northern mound is the site of a fourth barrow, the buried ditch of which is visible as a cropmark, defining a circular enclosure approximately 25m in diameter, containing a large, central pit. Such a feature is known as a ring ditch.