The trees are long gone, the pit has shrunk to little more than a hollow clipped at its northern edge by a field boundary, and the surrounding ground gives almost nothing away. It is the kind of place that only makes sense on paper.

The site sits within the former grounds of Windfield Demesne, and both features are thought to have been ornamental elements of the demesne landscape, the kind of designed arrangement that Georgian and Victorian landowners used to give their estates a sense of order and prospect. Tree clumps planted in geometric shapes were a common device in eighteenth and nineteenth-century landscape design, used to punctuate open ground and draw the eye. The oval pit is harder to interpret without further evidence, but its dimensions, roughly 31 metres north to south and 16 metres east to west, suggest it was no incidental hollow. By the time the 1932 Ordnance Survey revision was made, the trees had already disappeared from the record, leaving only the depression behind. That too has since faded into the field system around it.