Within Dam Banks, the main leat would have flowed into a triangular shaped holding pond with high banks surrouding it and a terrace within it. Oopenings and visisble stonework at the east and the south points of the triangle indicate former sluice-gates.

Two phases of stonework were revealed at the south sluice, the second, a rougher drystone wall, was in part aligned on a former timber-lined trough that had transferred water from a possible overflow pond, across the sluice to the leat that followed the west side of Moor Pond; this suggests that this particular leat as a later addition.

The curving wall on both sides of the central sluice blocks may suggest that water could be allowed to flow through the aperture in either direction, at different times.

Laura Binns, 2015, Dam Banks South Sluice Pond, Moor Pond Woods, Papplewick, Nottinghamshire: Report on an archaeological investigation (Unpublished document). SNT5711.