Land reverting to moorland. Significantly visible remains of quarrying and bell pits across this area but particularly along the south of this area. Placename 'Spouthous(e)' first recorded 1516 (Smith 1961, Vol 1 p239). Quarries shown as 'disused' in 1851 although aerial photographs from 1999 and 2003 Geoinformation Group (Cities Revealed) sets indicate current activity at these former quarry sites and modern metalled roads linking them - ?active requarring or tipping. Land also divided up by fragmentary field boundaries which appear to be truncated by later quarrying. This may indicate earlier use of this land (which lies at the same altitude as nearby sections of historic upland moor) by agricultural improvement. Significant legibility of earlier landscape features. 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).