That absence is, in its own way, the most telling detail about it. When it was recorded in 1976, the site presented itself as a small subcircular rise, roughly 25 metres north to south and 23 metres east to west, ringed by a low irregular bank. Low and unassuming even then, it was the kind of feature that rewards close attention rather than announcing itself.

Local tradition held that the rise was all that remained of an old churchyard, one where burials continued into the late 1800s. That puts it within living memory of the people who would have described it to whoever first wrote it down, which lends the account a particular intimacy. Since that 1976 description was made, the monument has been levelled entirely and is no longer visible at ground level. The pasture has reclaimed it. What had already been reduced to a gentle swell in a field is now, to the eye, indistinguishable from the surrounding ground.