It is gone now, levelled into the tillage with no visible trace remaining at the surface. What makes this quietly odd is not the disappearance itself, which is common enough for earthworks of this kind, but the map evidence of how it vanished in stages, its outline shifting in character across successive editions of the same survey.

Circular enclosures of this type are generally understood to be early medieval in origin, ring-forts or raths being the most familiar form, where an earthen bank and ditch enclosed a farmstead or settlement. The 1842 six-inch Ordnance Survey map records this one as a dotted circle sitting precisely at the meeting point of four fields, a position that sometimes suggests a boundary was deliberately drawn around an already ancient feature. By the 1904 and 1936 editions, what had been a complete circuit was represented only as a curved field fence running north-north-east to south-west, with the south-west to north-north-east arc left open, meaning the enclosure had been partially absorbed into the agricultural landscape, its remaining curve repurposed as an ordinary field boundary before that too disappeared. A second circular enclosure survives approximately 120 metres to the south, which at least confirms that this part of Oldcourt was once a place where such monuments clustered.