The site is thought to be a ring-barrow, a type of Bronze Age burial monument typically consisting of a low central mound surrounded by a circular ditch and outer bank, and its story is an odd inversion of the usual archaeological problem: not that it has been forgotten, but that it can only really be seen from above.

When Ordnance Survey teams mapped the area at a scale of 1:2500 during the years 1912 to 1916, they recorded a roughly subcircular enclosure measuring approximately 33 metres east to west and 30 metres north to south, with a central mound of around 14 by 12 metres. That is a reasonably substantial feature, the central mound alone being larger than many domestic gardens. Yet when the site was physically inspected in February 1984, no visible surface trace remained. The earthworks had been levelled so thoroughly by agricultural activity, or simply by the slow pressure of time and grazing, that there was nothing left to see underfoot. What the 1984 visit could not anticipate was that aerial photography would later recover the outline with considerable clarity. Google Earth imagery from 2018 shows the enclosure's shape preserved as a cropmark or soilmark in the field, the buried geometry of the old monument still influencing what grows above it, even if it no longer raises so much as a ripple in the turf.