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Saw Pit(lost)

Other OS name in the Parish of Glentworth

Etymology

( lost ) , 1828 Bry , v. NED s.v. saw-pit “ An excavation in the ground , over the mouth of which a framework is erected on which timber is placed to be sawn with a long two - handled saw by two men , the one standing in the pit and the other on a raised platform ” .