1839 A. UreDict. Arts 894 A section of the ochre pits at Shotover Hill, near Oxford.
1998 O. RackhamTrees & Woodland in Brit. Landscape vi. 118 Certain well-defined kinds of dug pit—gravel-pits, brick-pits, marl-pits, bell-pits or drifts,..ochre-pits—sometimes happen to occur in woodland.