It is the kind of feature that rewards a second look, or a first look at the right angle of light. What exactly it represents remains genuinely uncertain, which is part of what makes it worth noting.

The feature was recorded seriously enough by the antiquarian H. Knox in 1911, who published a sketch plan and took careful measurements of what he described as a low platform defined by scarps, the longest sides running to roughly 77 and 80 metres, with a short north-eastern side of about 16 metres. A scarp, in this context, is essentially an earthen slope or bank, the remnant of what was once a more pronounced edge or boundary. Knox noted slight traces of a shallow ditch outside the enclosing scarp in places, and raised the possibility that it had functioned as a defensive work, with the scarps perhaps once topped by timber stockades. The site appeared on the 1838 Ordnance Survey six-inch maps as a sub-rectangular field, with a rectangular house shown at the western corner, bordered by roads on the south and north-east. By later map editions it had vanished from the record entirely. Today the scarp survives to around 1.2 metres in height with a slope roughly 3 metres wide, partly levelled, the southern and eastern sides now formed by field fences running alongside the roads. The north-western corner is noticeably wet, with rushes marking the damp ground. Current thinking is cautious: the enclosure may simply be the remains of an old field boundary rather than anything with a defensive or ceremonial purpose.