The field system here exists not as earthworks or stonework but as cropmarks, the subtle differential growth in grass and crops that betrays buried features to a camera mounted in a low-flying aircraft. At ground level, there is nothing to see at all.

In 1966, a series of aerial photographs taken as part of the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography captured the outlines of what appears to be an organised field system. The images show cropmarks of two parallel linear ditches running to the west of a cluster of ditch barrows, the latter being ring-shaped burial monuments defined by a surrounding ditch rather than an upstanding bank. Two further single ditches appear to the south and east of the same barrow group, suggesting that the field boundaries and the funerary monuments were laid out in some relationship to one another, though at what period and by whom remains unknown. The land itself was originally marshy ground along the Munster Blackwater, and has since been drained and reclaimed, which has flattened any surface trace the features might once have presented. The reclamation that made the land agriculturally useful is almost certainly what buried and obscured what lay beneath it.