Stand on the ground above it and there is nothing to indicate its presence, no ridge, no furrow, no trace of a boundary. It exists, for all practical purposes, only from the air.

The system was identified through aerial photographs taken on two separate occasions, the first on 9 July 1964 and the second on 14 July 1970, as part of the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography. In those images, the outlines of the fields appear as cropmarks or soil variations, patterns that become legible only when viewed from altitude and at the right season, when differential growth in crops or grass betrays buried features beneath the topsoil. The field system runs northward from an associated enclosure and its western annexe, an enclosure being, in this context, a defined area bounded by an earthwork or similar feature, typically associated with early medieval settlement or agriculture. The relationship between the two features suggests a working landscape, fields laid out in deliberate relation to a central place, though precisely when that landscape was in use remains unrecorded in the available material.