This is a modern field that was a part of the prehistoric landscape. 
On some aerial photographs crop marks of ancient field boundaries and enclosures can be seen running across it from the Leys Lane area.
Possible settlement features also appear.

Fieldwalking was carried out in 2008

We found medieval, Iron Age and Romano-British potsherds, the earlier pottery being similar to that found in the tops of some of the pits of the south pit alignment in the field at the other side of Deep Dale the year before.

Our previous fieldwalking, to survey flint scatters, had found flint tools, including mesolithic (10,000 to 4,000 BC) and neolithic (4,000 to 2,300 BC) examples, and small amounts of burnt and waste flint.