When surveyors finally inspected the site in 2000, they found something rather more ambiguous: a drystone wall of modern construction, roughly circular, measuring about twenty-five metres across, sitting towards the bottom of a north-facing slope with mature deciduous trees growing inside it.

The wall itself survives only partially. Running from the south-east around to the north, it stands 1.3 metres high and about 0.4 metres wide, built in the dry-stone manner, where stones are laid without mortar and rely on weight and careful placement for stability. From the north around to the south-east, the wall has been removed entirely, leaving a gap that accounts for roughly half the original circuit. Whether it was built as a shelter for animals, a managed woodland enclosure, or something else entirely, the record does not say. It had been listed as an enclosure in both the Sites and Monuments Record of 1992 and the Record of Monuments and Places of 1996, categories that typically signal prehistoric or early medieval origin, which made the discovery of its modern date quietly deflating for anyone hoping for antiquity. The trees inside have since grown to maturity, giving the remaining arc of wall a faintly purposeful air that its origins may not entirely deserve.