Walk the field today and you would find ordinary grass, ordinary soil. Yet an aerial photograph tells a different story: ghostly lines of fragmentary field boundaries running on roughly east-west and north-north-east to south-south-west axes, accompanied by cultivation ridges aligned broadly east-west, spreading across an area of approximately 240 metres north to south and 130 metres east to west.

This kind of cropmark or soil-mark evidence, visible only from the air, is one of the quieter ways that earlier agricultural landscapes announce themselves. Cultivation ridges of this type are the traces of a method of ploughing or hand-digging that threw soil into raised beds, improving drainage on wet ground. The field boundaries suggest deliberate parcelling of land, though without excavation or additional dating evidence it is difficult to assign the system to a particular period. When the site was inspected at ground level in 2004, nothing whatsoever was visible to the eye. The landscape had swallowed the whole arrangement entirely, leaving it legible only through the lens of aerial survey.