The site is not merely a ruined wall or a levelled mound but, according to the account left by Moore, a quadrangular fort whose interior once revealed the foundations of roughly half a dozen small cells, built in regular masonry and apparently contemporary with the earthen defences around them.

Moore, writing between 1849 and 1851, described what he found in some detail. The enclosure possessed the typical features of a fortified site, including a fosse (a defensive ditch) and a rampart, but what caught his attention was the internal arrangement: a cluster of small stone-built rooms or cells laid out within the protected space. He judged the masonry to be of genuine antiquity, of an age matching the earthworks themselves. Later assessment has placed the site within the category of a possible moated site, a type of medieval enclosure in which a platform or island was surrounded by a water-filled or wet ditch, often associated with manorial settlement from the thirteenth or fourteenth century. The combination of earthen defences, a possible moat, and multiple internal stone foundations would make this a layered and genuinely unusual complex.

When the site was examined in 2016, none of the internal features Moore described were visible. The vegetation, dense with ferns and scrub growth, had effectively swallowed whatever stonework remained. Whether the foundations he recorded survive beneath the overgrowth, or have deteriorated in the century and a half since his visit, remains an open question.