A hollow way takes up the width of the lower edge of the image, and leads towards the centre of the photo. There, a small burn flows from left to right; it is one of those that join to form the Spouts Burn, in the area shown in
NS4379 : The Spouts Burn.
Behind the photographer's position, there is a braided track, but those tracks converge, becoming a single deeper track, at the point from which the photo was taken; that single track continues towards the burn.
[This is possibly the site of what was once (according to pre-OS plans) called Hairshaw Ford; if so, a lime-kiln (the Belting Kiln) was nearby. See the relevant section —
Link — of one of my Geograph articles for more on this topic.]
On the far (eastern) side of the small burn, about halfway up the image, the ground has a disturbed look, and consists of green knolls; it was probably disturbed as a consequence of the local limestone industry. That area is shown in
NS4379 : Moorland disturbed by former limestone industry and in
NS4379 : Moorland disturbed by former limestone industry. [Its disturbed nature is more apparent in the 2005 satellite imagery referred to below.]
Behind the photographer's position, the braided tracks came, ultimately, from about
NS42147791, about 2 kilometres to the south-west, in the vicinity of Maryland Farm. In fact, they are part of the same extended system as those shown in
NS4377 : Ancient trackway and
NS4377 : Ancient trackway (see
NS4377 : Dry-stone wall for further comments, and for evidence of their antiquity). This extended system of tracks appears to link sites that were connected with the local limestone industry. See
Link for further details, and for references.
In satellite imagery, this network of tracks is best followed using Google Earth's "historical imagery"; specifically, with the images dated Jan 28th, 2005: in that dataset, the sun's angle of illumination is exceptionally shallow, revealing many details that would otherwise be indistinct.
From the area shown in the present photograph, the tracks turn abruptly to the south-east, before heading east again; they lead to other green disturbed areas, whose appearance suggests that they were places where surface outcrops of limestone were quarried. Some of those green disturbed areas are centred on
NS43977904,
NS43987911, and
NS44127914 (shown in
NS4479 : Site of former limestone quarrying); similar disturbed areas are visible elsewhere alongside the tracks.