Measuring roughly eleven metres east to west and ten metres north to south, its walls rise somewhere between sixty centimetres and a metre, built in the dry-stone tradition, where stones are laid without mortar and rely on weight and careful placement to hold together. Nothing about it is especially ancient or mysterious. And yet, for a period of several years, official records managed to disagree with one another, and with reality, about what it actually was.

The site first appeared in the Sites and Monuments Record in 1992, catalogued simply as an enclosure. By 1996, the Record of Monuments and Places had quietly upgraded its interest, listing it as a possible well. When someone finally visited in 1997, they found a subrectangular enclosure of modern construction and no well anywhere nearby. The gap between the 1992 classification and the 1997 inspection represents the ordinary life of heritage recording, where sites are logged from maps, aerial photographs, or earlier sources, and ground-truthing sometimes comes later, or not at all. In this case it came, and the well evaporated.