“Discarded long barrow, Manton Down, as dumped in 1996 – the end (or just another phase?) of a long story of abuse of a chambered long barrow which was a Scheduled Ancient Monument supposedly protected by law; but it made the big mistake of being in the way of agricultural land improvement in the 1950s and has subsequently been totally destroyed. This presumably final resting is about a quarter mile (c.400m) from the place where these stones were built into a tomb some 6000 years ago, a tomb which was respected by prehistoric farmers when cultivating their fields 2000-3000 years later. And 3000 years later again – progress? What progress?”
Text under a photo of the destroyed barrow in “An English Countryside Explored – The Land of Lettice Sweetapple” by Peter Fowler and Ian Blackwell