What makes it quietly strange is precisely this trajectory: from a named, mapped enclosure to a faint curved line to nothing at all, across less than two centuries of documentation.

The earliest record of the feature comes from the 1838 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, where it appears as a small roughly circular enclosure, approximately twenty metres in diameter. Notably, a single fir tree was depicted in the interior, suggesting the site had some presence on the ground at that time, enough to be individually noted by the surveyors. By the time the more detailed OS 1:2500 plan was surveyed between 1912 and 1916, something had already been lost. Only a hachured line, a cartographic shorthand for a slope or earthwork edge, curving from south-west to north-west remained. The full circuit of the enclosure was gone from the record. Aerial imagery from 2019 suggests the site has since been levelled entirely, leaving no visible trace in the landscape. Whether it was ever a formal enclosure of the kind associated with early settlement, a later landscape or field feature, or something else entirely remains unresolved.