First depicted on the 1923 OS these allotment gardens previously extended to the north across what is now Osgathorpe Park (ex Earl Marshall Recreation Ground). The external boundaries of this polygon have considerable time depth as those to the east and west represent the edges of earlier piecemeal enclosure while Grimesthorpe Road to the south was shown during road widening in 1948 to fossilise the course of part of the 'Roman Rig' (Preston and Butcher 1956. See also SMR 4039/1). These boundaries amount to fragmentary legibility.