It was large enough, at roughly 53 metres along its north-east to south-west axis and 34 metres across, to register clearly on the revised 1913 Ordnance Survey 25-inch map, where it appears as a defined scarp, the kind of sloped earthen edge that typically marks the boundary of an enclosure, a ringfort, or some other shaped feature of the early landscape. The site commanded good views to the north, east, and south from its modest elevation, a quality that historically made such positions attractive for settlement or defence.

By 1980, anyone walking the field would have found nothing. The surface remains had disappeared entirely, and the field boundaries to the west and south, which may have preserved the outline of the feature in the arrangement of the land if not in the earth itself, were subsequently removed. Aerial photography confirms the picture: no trace of the monument is visible from above. What the earthwork actually was, how old it was, and who built it are questions the available evidence cannot answer. The map record is essentially all that survives, a cartographic ghost of something that was already fading when the surveyors passed through in the early twentieth century.