Monument record LVT 006 - 8 Round Barrows on Levington Heath

8 Round Barrows on Levington Heath.
1959: Diameter 30 yds, height 2.5 ft. No visible ditch. Ploughed over 1962: Lies within a cabbage field and was not visited. Approximately 0.3 - 0.5m in height.
1977: Mound height 0.17m, diameter 17m (R1).
1981: Not visible under crop (S1).
1983: Destroyed.
1992: Still visible as low mound, between 25-40cm high, in field (S2). 1993: Still visible, 0.25m high, diameter c.27m, with surrounding infilled ditch c.3m wide (S3).
A possible round barrow of Bronze Age date can be seen on aerial photographs as the earthwork and cropmark of a mound centred on Levington Heath at circa TM24874041, Levington parish. The mound can be seen as an earthwork on aerial photographs of 1944, but by 1987 is visible only as a pale cropmark of irregular shape circa 13 metres in diameter (S4). It must be assumed that even by 1944 the mound had been damaged by agricultural activity and had been reduced in size. This is one of a number of probable barrows the immediate area (see LVT 004, 005, 008 and LVT 034), but a number of similar sites are visible on Levington Heath (S5).