Beneath a tangle of ferns and scrub, the remains of a small complex of stone foundations lie within what may be a moated site, the kind of enclosure typically associated with medieval settlement, where a rectangular area of raised ground was surrounded by a water-filled or wet ditch to mark out a defended homestead or manor.

The earliest account of the place comes from Moore, writing between 1849 and 1851, who described it as a quadrangular fort with the usual fosse and rampart, the fosse being the surrounding ditch, and the rampart the earthen bank thrown up beside it. What made it remarkable to him was what lay inside: foundations of about half a dozen small cells or rooms, built from dressed stonework that he believed to be as old as the earthworks enclosing them. He was careful with his language, noting he was working from recollection, but the impression he left was of a compact, purposefully laid-out structure, something domestic or perhaps monastic in character, now reduced to its ground plan. Whether those cell-like subdivisions represent a small defended residence, an ecclesiastical enclosure, or something else entirely, the notes do not resolve.

By the time the site was visited in 2016, none of Moore's internal features were visible at ground level. The vegetation that had already been encroaching in his day has since done its work thoroughly. The stonework he handled and described is, for now, buried under the hillside growth.