This boundaries of this polygon follow those of Scheduled Ancient Monument 29957 "Swinton Pottery (The Rockingham Works). The Swinton Pottery dates back to at least 1745 (Cox and Cox 1970), when a Joseph Flint was recorded as renting property on Swinton Common for digging clay, operating a brickworks, tile yard and pot house (Bell 2002). The pottery was chiefly concerned with the production of earthenware until a financial crisis led to the potteries rescue by Earl Fitzwilliam in 1825 (ibid, 2). The renamed 'Rockingham Pottery' diversified into the production of porcelain which would make it internationally famous. The works was sold in 1843 when pottery production ceased but the works continued to decorate the products of other potteries until 1865. The remaining buildings on site consist of: 'Flintmill Farm' which dates to the late 18th century when "it served as a working farm, providing stabling for draught horses and including willow garths and plantations of crate wood [providing] packaging materials" (EH Scheduling Description); a bottle kiln; Strawberry Farm (thought to be part of the main works complex depicted in 1855 and demolished by 1894); internal land divisions and extraction pits (now ponds) shown in 1855 and the surrounding plantation woodlands. The present layout closely relates to its appearance on the 1894 mapping by which time much of the works had been demolished. Fragmentary legibility of the common land which provided the conditions for the industrial growth of this complex. The associated plantations are likely to be the adjacent woodlands (HSY3115 and 3116).