On the 1920 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, the spot is marked with hachures, the short radiating lines cartographers used to indicate a depression or earthwork in the landscape. That marking was enough to prompt a site inspection in 1983, when the feature was identified as a disused quarry pit, most likely dug sometime after 1700 to extract stone for local building or road work. It is the kind of place that accumulates questions it cannot quite answer: who cut stone here, for what purpose, and when exactly it fell out of use are details the ground does not give up easily.