| Description | Cropmarks of short length of double pit alignment, each line containing a probable minimum of 5 pits. The cropmarks are unclear and are partly obscured by broad patches of green the site is clearest on WY col. slides but barely discernible on WY 143/4,5.
The site could be interpreted as a building or other post built structure. Its proximity to some round barrows and a henge (PRN 1296, 1304), however, is reminiscent of those longer double pit alignments found at Thornborough (N.Yks) and S. Muskham (Notts) (see St Joseph). These contain short runs of larger pit pairs and it is possible that it is the equivalent of these larger pits which are showing here; if so, then the monument may be continued linearly at either or both ends. Equally, this short alignment could form a short avenue leading into some more compact structure. The designation as a 'place of worship ritual activity' is therefore quite conjectural and other possibilities must be borne in mind (the term 'pit alignment' is also a misnomer).
Gradiometer survey completed in 1989 at nominal 1nT resolution on 1 x 0.5 m. stations. Pits as described above confirmed, but there is a total of only one possible and seven definite pits, the north easterly ones on each line not being paired; the magnetic anomalies from the seven definite pits are sub circular in shape and of the order of 2 m. diameter; average linear spacing of paired pits 4.73 m; average lateral spacing of paired pits 6.18 m; no definite additional features found, although the possibility of circular, concentric gullies at the north east end of pits might be further explored; the feature lies at the bottom of a marked scarp in the limestone with which it is obliquely aligned any continuation is perhaps more likely to be at the north east end (away from the scarp). |