Many towns, villages and country estates had their own saw pits.

Access to the saw pit was via steps or a ladder at one end.

A saw pit is located beside the Haltwhistle burn.

He glanced toward the saw pit and came to a halt.

He eases it out and walks back to the saw pit.

The pits are often found in association with saw pits.

The younger man was cleaning the saw pit, and two other young men were stacking the planks.

"You nearly walked into the saw pit," Anne told him.

Evidence of some of the saw pits, over which trees were cut into planks, can still be found in the wood.

In those early days the pit-sawyers roamed the countryside, and the saw pits were set up at various places close to forest areas.