There are more curious stones a mere 500 metres away at Alderman’s rocks, and the old maps have the “Fairy Hole” at SE01520469 – surely what this must refer to?
On the hill of Alderman, but nearer to Greenfield than is Pots and Pans, is a long fissure in the earth, about 14 yards in length, each end of which terminates in a cavernous hole in the rock. Tradition says that into one of these holes
A fox and dog, once on a Whitsun morn,
Entered in chase, but never to return.
From Saddleworth Sketches by Joseph Bradbury, 1871.