The site is not marked by any standing remains, no wall, no earthen bank, no obvious depression in the ground. What gives it away is the ghost of a fosse, a defensive ditch, traced in interrupted sections that modern geophysical survey has managed to read where the human eye finds nothing.

The enclosure came to light through a magnetic gradiometer survey, a technique that measures subtle variations in the earth's magnetic field caused by buried features such as ditches, pits, and walls that have different magnetic properties from the surrounding soil. The survey revealed the circular fosse sitting on an east-facing slope, but also showed that the enclosure had been obscured over time by field banks that were already established by 1839, when the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map recorded the area. That layering tells a quiet story: an early enclosed settlement or farmstead, long abandoned and forgotten, its boundaries eventually redrawn by later agricultural activity until the original form disappeared entirely from the visible landscape.