A roughly circular area, measuring about 24 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west, is defined by a low scarp, a step-like drop in the earth barely 20 centimetres high, along with what appear to be the faint traces of a fosse on its southern and south-south-western side. A fosse is simply a ditch, often cut to reinforce or defend a boundary, and in this case its surviving impression is shallow enough that a casual walker might dismiss it as a natural unevenness in the land. The whole feature sits within a wider field system, quietly occupying the elevated ground that enclosures of this type so often favoured.

The enclosure was not identified by fieldwork on the ground but by scrutiny of an aerial photograph, GSI R. 438/7, taken on 16 April 1974. Aerial photography has long been one of the most effective tools for detecting low-lying earthworks that centuries of agriculture have reduced to near-invisibility. Seen from above, the subtle geometry of the scarp and fosse resolved into something legible and purposeful. Just to the north of the enclosure, a further trace survives: a linear depression marking the course of an old field boundary, a reminder that the landscape around the site was itself organised and divided long before the current field pattern was established.