It appears on the first edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 as a quarry, that much is clear. What is less clear is whether anything archaeologically significant ever took place there, or whether the marking on that mid-nineteenth century map was simply a record of industry rather than antiquity.

The site was flagged in both the Sites and Monuments Record of 1988 and the Record of Monuments and Places of 1998 as a potential site of archaeological interest, categorised on the basis of cartographic evidence alone. This is a designation that acknowledges possibility without confirming it. Surveyors noted the quarry's presence on historical mapping but concluded that the available evidence was not sufficient to accept it as the location of an archaeological monument. In other words, the map raised a hand, and the ground has not yet answered. Quarries of this period were frequently associated with estate or agricultural improvement works, and occasionally with the disturbance or destruction of earlier features, which is likely what drew initial attention here. But without physical corroboration, the site remains in a kind of provisional limbo.