Narrow bands of paler growth, each roughly three quarters of a metre wide, run in a broadly north-east to south-west direction across the field. Differential growth of this kind, where soil disturbance beneath the surface alters how vegetation responds above it, is one of the quieter ways that erased earthworks announce themselves to anyone paying attention. It is, in this case, almost all that remains.

Somewhere beneath that pasture, medieval earthworks of some complexity once stood. The detail is frustratingly slight: a pencilled annotation on an old field map describes them as 'complex medieval earthwork[s]', though the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps, across all their editions, record nothing at this location at all. By 1980, any surface remains had already been levelled to the point where nothing was visible. A field fence that once ran north-east to south-west across the southern part of the area has since been removed as well. Whatever arrangement of banks, ditches, or enclosures once occupied this rise in the ground, with its good views in all directions, it had been entirely absorbed into agricultural land before anyone could record it in detail. Aerial photography has confirmed the erasure; the earthworks do not appear even from above.