This land, now assuming a character of regenerative scrubland due to agricultural abandonment is depicted on historic mapping as straight sided regular enclosure. These boundaries, now overgrown give partial legibility to the probable origin of these fields in the Totley Enclosure award (a map of which is listed by Kain et al. (2004), as dating from 1841. The origin of the moorland landscape is uncertain though this area is likely to be moorland by the Roman period (see Bevan 2003 for discussion of environmental evidence).