Visible only from the air, a rectilinear system of banks covers an area roughly 120 metres east to west and 90 metres north to south, lying immediately east of the 19th-century country house. The system does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842, which means it was either already too faint to record by that date, or that its origins belong to an earlier period that the Victorian surveyors simply did not see beneath their feet.

The western edge of the earthwork system is cut off by a ha-ha, the sunken boundary wall that was a common feature of designed landscapes from the 18th century onward, allowing uninterrupted views across parkland without the visual interruption of a fence or wall. To the north, a demesne field boundary closes the system off. What lies within those limits is harder to interpret with certainty. The most plausible reading is that the banks are the remains of garden enclosures or small cultivated fields associated with the fortified house that stands immediately to the south-west, a structure that predates the 19th-century building beside it. If that interpretation is correct, the earthworks preserve something of how the land immediately around that earlier house was organised and used, before the deer-park absorbed and obscured it.

The deer-park itself is not publicly accessible, and the earthworks, being low and grassy, would in any case be far easier to read from above than from ground level. The aerial photograph that first identified this pattern offers more legibility than any visit to the pasture could.