Austerfield Quarry is a sand and gravel quarry which is first depicted on the 1929 OS map. However, quarrying probably began in 1911 as a find spot for a 'Romano-British Urn' is marked here with that date. Prior to this the area consisted of regular fields with straight edges formed through the parliamentary enclosure award of Austerfield in 1767. The award enclosed the open fields and are still marked as 'Town Field' on the 1st edition OS map of 1854. A watching brief on the gravel extraction revealed pits containing Iron Age/ Romano-British material including pottery and quern fragments indicating a settlement. Legibility of the former landscape is, however, invisible.