The Dam Banks area of Moor Pond woods was topographically surveyed in 2009 to establish what the site may have been used for. (2) The area surveyed is roughly rectangular in shape, measuring 218m north-west to south-east and 35-45m wide. Its east side is defined by a leat with a footpath running alongside it. (1) The area was surveyed using a Leica TCR705 total station. (1) Over 2000 survey points were taken to create a surface plan of the leat, the series of irregular shaped banks or platforms, clear breaks of slope, hollows, and curving gullies that make up this part of the project area. (2) Options for its use include being intended for the bleaching of linen. The area around the Dam Banks featured a number of cotton mills and a complex water management system was created between c.1778-94 by George Robinson. By this time, potential developments in the bleaching process were probably known about and experimentation may have been taking place. However, there is no record of bleaching have occurred, or specialist buildings that may have been so-used, having been at Top Mill, the closest mill to the site. (1) Alternative possibilities include 'hemp pits' which are recorded in the tithe award for Linby close to the River Leen, areas close to the River Leen where hemp was evidently grown in damper, sunken areas. Although few traces of these now show where they are recorded to have been, due to modern farming having obliterated them, the possibility that Dam Banks is a survival of this within Papplewick parish cannot be ruled out. (1) The potentially damp conditions within most of the Dam Banks could also have been used for growing of willows for spiling, the revetting of banks (such as canal banks) and steep slopes by using stakes with willow poles woven between them. (1) The area may have served no other purpose than to act as a holding area for water when the leat or nearby Upper Dam threatened to overflow after heavy rains and affect Linby Lane. (1) The supposed earthworks within Dam Banks may be the result of dumping soils from either the initial digging of the adjacent leat, or from dumping when housing spread along Linby Lane. (1)