A MYSTERIOUS 5ft-deep hole has appeared at a nature reserve.

Sharing pictures on social media Sonia Newman warned others to be careful when walking at the Dry Sandford Pit in Abingdon.

She said: “I’m assuming some overzealous ‘sandcastle makers’ rather than machinery have dug a hole in the ‘sandpit’. If a person of dog were to run across the quarry, they would fall in.

Oxford Mail:

“I tried to refill it but there wasn’t enough sand around so not sure what they did with it.”

A man called John came up with one theory, saying it could be a rediscovered borehole, from when the area was a quarry, that has since been forgotten about.

Oxford Mail:

He suggested it could have been covered with wooden board which has now rotted away and collapsed and that the sandcastles were a way or warning others.

But the pit has also baffled the managers at the Berks, Bucks and Oxon Wildlife Trust who are investigating where it has come from.  

It is understood that the team at the nature reserve have been looking into it and have made the area safe for visitors. 

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