Its disappearance would likely have gone unremarked altogether had a single aerial survey flight not passed over the area in June 1967 and caught the faint geometry of an older landscape pressed into the fields below.

The flight, part of the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography, recorded more than just the vanished enclosure. Stretching out from the vicinity of the early church, a series of large rectangular fields defined by low earthen banks became visible from altitude, their outlines legible in the crop and soil in a way that ground-level observation would never reveal. Running alongside them, apparently contemporary with both the fields and the enclosure, a trackway could be traced for roughly 500 metres on a northeast to southwest alignment, passing very close to the church itself. An enclosure, an organised field system, and a defined route of movement: together they suggest a degree of planning and land management around this early ecclesiastical site that the present landscape gives no hint of. The irregular enclosure immediately to the north of the church is the most completely lost element; it survived long enough to be captured from the air, but not long enough to outlast the gravedigger's levelling work.