This countryside enclosed from Pickburn Leys (depicted as common or rough ground by Jefferys in 1775), probably as part of the Brodsworth enclosure award of 1830 (English 1985, 25. Pickburn Leys was the site of significant excavations by the SYAFRU in 1984 (Sydes and Symonds 1985). These excavations examined features visible on aerial photographs and revealed a rectilinear field system and established by the late Iron Age when a large enclosure was superimposed upon it (from which was yielded some of the only positively identified Iron Age pottery from the county). By the Romano British phases of the site ditches were interpreted as having silted up with other boundary features employed (Sydes 1993). The present character of this land is one of agglomerated agricultural units although partial fragments of earlier landscapes are apparent including parliamentary period roadways occasional boundaries, a medieval tithe barn (indicating possible medieval arable cultivation) and a Roman Road, which forms the eastern boundary of this area.