This is the site of a limestone quarry. These were common sites across Northumberland during the Agricultural Revolution. The quarry was visited in 1852 for fossils by the Berwickshire Naturalists Club; at this time the quarry was not working. The quarry is not marked as working on the Ordnance Survey first edition of the area. By this time there were many other ways of neutralising and fertilizing ground. Such treatments included nightsoil from towns, slag from blast furnaces and chemicals such as guano. These were often imported, in large quantities, to the countryside; a specific shed for guano can be seen elsewhere near Alnmouth.