Not destruction exactly, but something more ambiguous: scorched soil, charcoal-rich deposits, and traces of burning that sat undisturbed beneath the surface until relatively recently.

In 2002, archaeologist Ruth Elliott carried out monitoring work at the site, uncovering two separate areas of burnt material alongside a post-medieval drainage or field ditch. The more substantial of the two, in the south-western part of the site, covered an irregular area of roughly 20 by 30 metres. Within it, the burning had occurred in situ, meaning the fire happened on the spot rather than the material being deposited elsewhere and brought here. Several features contained soil dense with charcoal, and some showed burning around their edges, suggesting repeated or concentrated heat rather than a single event. What caused the burning, and when precisely it occurred, is harder to say. The association with a post-medieval field ditch places at least some of the activity broadly after the medieval period, but the burnt spread itself remains somewhat open to interpretation.