Each enclosure measures roughly ten metres across, and together they form a loose cluster spread across the tillage landscape, the outermost pair sitting about 280 metres apart, two others nearly touching at just 25 metres, and a fifth positioned roughly in the centre of the whole arrangement.

Ring-ditches are circular features defined by a fosse, essentially a ditch cut into the ground, and they are most commonly associated with prehistoric funerary or ceremonial activity, though their precise function varies considerably from site to site. What makes this group at Kilmagar particularly interesting is that it survives not as upstanding earthworks but as cropmarks, a phenomenon where buried features influence the growth of crops above them, making ditches and pits readable as colour or height differences in the vegetation. These five enclosures were identified and reported by Jean-Charles Caillère, who spotted them on satellite imagery, and they were formally recorded as recently as June 2023. The fact that such a coherent grouping remained unrecorded until satellite imagery became widely accessible is a reminder of how much archaeology is still embedded in ordinary farmland, waiting to be noticed from a new angle.