Whatever purpose the enclosure once served, its neighbours, centuries later, treated it with a certain deference.

The enclosure sits on a gentle east-facing slope just below the crest of a hill, roughly a hundred metres north-northeast of a medieval church and graveyard. It is modest in scale, about twenty metres in diameter, defined by an earthen bank no more than half a metre high. That low bank, easy to overlook from a distance, is the boundary of something that apparently predates the surrounding earthworks of a deserted medieval settlement, the kind of abandoned rural landscape, visible today as lumps and hollows in pasture, that was once a functioning community of houses, fields, and enclosures. The fact that those later earthworks seem to curve and adjust around this circular feature suggests it was already present and already regarded as significant when the settlement took shape. Whether it was a ritual site, a stock enclosure, or something else entirely, the archaeology does not yet say.