What was once a burial mound on a natural hillock in gently rolling grassland, its southern and south-western edges flanked by marshy ground, now exists only as a cropmark, a faint ghost visible in aerial photography from November 2011. The earthwork was levelled decades ago, and the land has returned to agricultural use. But cropmarks work by revealing buried features through differential growth in crops or grass above them, and so the outline of the mound can still be traced from the air, a pale signature pressed into the field.

Ordnance Survey mapping gives a sense of what was lost. The 1837 six-inch edition recorded the site as a circular earthwork, the classic form of an ancient burial mound. By the 1911 twenty-five-inch edition, the shape had shifted in representation to sub-rectangular, with approximate dimensions of forty metres north-west to south-east and twenty-eight metres north-east to south-west. Whether the earthwork itself had changed, or whether the later survey simply captured it more precisely, is unclear. What happened next is better documented. A field report from 1975 recorded that the landowner had discovered two human graves, lying side by side, when bulldozing the site in 1972. The graves were not excavated under controlled conditions, and little further detail was recorded. The mound sits in a quietly significant cluster: a possible moated site, the kind of water-defended enclosure associated with Anglo-Norman settlement, lies roughly a hundred metres to the north-west, and possible settlement earthworks identified as 'Old Brownstown' are similarly close to the west.