Hachuring, the old cartographic shorthand for slopes and earthworks, tends to signal something of antiquity, and so when surveyors went to inspect the feature in 1985, there was presumably some expectation of finding a ringfort, a quarried hillside of medieval character, or something similarly storied. What they found instead was a disused sand and gravel quarry, post-1700 in date and unremarkable by the standards of archaeological classification. It was, in short, a hole that did not qualify as history.