This feature is recorded in the English Heritage Historic Area Assessment for St Mary Hoo Parish. The report states:"In the 1790s Edward Hasted observed that the land in the parish was 'not so much subject to gravel' except around Coombe. By the early 19th century gravel extraction was taking place and two pits flanking the Ratcliffe Highway by Barn Street Farm were depicted on the tithe map of 1830. These seem to have passed out of use by the end of the century." (1)

The traces of a former, probably post medieval, gravel pit seen at TQ 8155 7698 adjacent to the Ratcliffe Highway to the north close to the houses known as Little Owls and Mayland. The quarry measured approximately 75m x 110m and appeared to have been filled in and overgrown on RAF photographs taken in 1953, and it recorded as "old gravel pit" on the first edition Ordnance Survey map.
This was mapped from aerial photographs as part of the English Heritage: Hoo Peninsula Landscape Project. (2)

<1> historic england, 2014, Hoo Peninsula Outline Historic Area Assessment: St Mary Hoo Parish. Research Report 2014-52 (Bibliographic reference). SKE31593.

<2> RAF, 1953, NMR RAF/58/732 0019 23-FEB-1953 (Photograph). SKE57294.

<3> Historic England, Archive material (Archive). SKE57278.