Tucked into a clearing within plantation forestry, it is the kind of place that resists easy reading, its features swallowed by vegetation and time in roughly equal measure.

What we know of it comes largely from a description published between 1849 and 1851 by a writer named Moore, who recorded a quadrangular fort complete with the usual fosse and rampart, the fosse being a defensive ditch and the rampart the earthen bank thrown up beside it. More intriguingly, Moore noted that within the enclosed space he found foundations of buildings laid out in small cells, perhaps half a dozen of them, built from what he called regular masonry and believed to be as old as the earthworks surrounding them. The site is now classified as a possible moated site, a category that typically refers to a medieval enclosure defined by a water-filled or wet ditch, often associated with a manor or defended farmstead from the Anglo-Norman period. Whether water ever filled the ditches here is unclear. When the site was assessed in 2016, none of the internal features Moore described could be made out; the vegetation had done its work thoroughly enough that absence of evidence was not quite the same as evidence of absence.