It is the kind of feature that could easily be walked past without a second thought, and for a long time it very nearly was.

The quarry first appears as a hachured marking on the 1945 revision of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, those small radiating lines used by cartographers to suggest a raised or broken feature in the landscape. When the site was inspected in 1984, the feature turned out to be the sunken outline of a quarry, its floor now grassed over and its edges defined by limestone blocks that had never been removed. Because it dates to after 1700, it falls outside the scope of prehistoric and early historic survey work, placing it in that overlooked category of post-medieval industrial remains that are too recent to draw archaeological attention and too modest to attract any other kind. What was once a working extraction site, likely supplying limestone for local building or agricultural use, had by the twentieth century become little more than a cartographic curiosity waiting to be explained.