Not a dramatic chasm or a celebrated cutting in the rock, just a pit, all that remained when someone came to look in 1984. What had once been a working quarry, substantial enough to merit careful cartographic attention, had by then subsided into near-invisibility.

The quarry's outline survives on paper more clearly than it does on the ground. The Ordnance Survey's six-inch map from 1930 marks an oblong hachured area, roughly 55 metres east to west and 15 metres north to south, the hachuring being a mapping convention used to indicate a depression or excavated feature. An earlier and more detailed OS plan, surveyed between 1912 and 1916 at the larger 1:2500 scale, names it explicitly as a disused quarry, suggesting that extraction had already ceased before the surveyors arrived. By the time of the 1930 edition it was still considered worth recording, but by 1984 the feature had reduced to little more than a hollow in the field.