This area of former farmland was worked as a gravel pit until 1964.
The whole thing started in 1912 when Charles Dawson claimed to find some interesting bones in a gravel pit.
Found in a gravel pit in Piltdown, England, a set of intriguing skull and jaw fragments were later reconstructed by the British Museum into a human-like head with an ape-like jaw.
The gravel pits have been landscaped and planted to make them attractive to wildfowl.
