The ground gives nothing away: flat, gently eastward-sloping grassland, wet in places, with a shallow quarry to the south-south-east. The enclosure exists, for most practical purposes, only from the air.

It was an aerial photograph, taken by the Air Corps and catalogued as V. 312/3078-7, that confirmed the site. From altitude, a cropmark, the faint differential in vegetation growth that betrays buried features beneath the soil, traced out the eastern quadrant of the circle. The western, northern, and north-eastern sectors had been partially legible by other means: the second edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map, published in 1906, showed a curving field boundary that followed the line of the enclosure closely enough to suggest the boundary itself had been laid out along a much older edge. That boundary has since been removed, along with a north-to-south field boundary that once ran along the western side. The landscape has been tidied, in other words, and in being tidied has become harder to read. What the enclosure originally was, whether a ringfort used as a defended farmstead in the early medieval period, a ceremonial site, or something else entirely, the available evidence does not say.