 The feature, which extends through Barber Fields is 20m wide and filled to a depth of 5m with rubble and has a metalled surface.The route of the Roman Road would have passed close to the Roman Villa known to have existed at nearby Whirlow Hall Farm.Limb Brook lies entirely within the City of Sheffield boundaries, but used to form (with the connecting River Sheaf and Meers Brook) part of the border between Yorkshire and Derbyshire.