Standing on the flat top of the low ridge where it sits, sloping gently to the north-east amid undulating farmland, a visitor would see nothing unusual at all. The grass gives nothing away. The ancient boundaries are simply gone from view, pressed down below the surface of the present.

The field system came to light not through excavation but through the air. An aerial photograph, reference GB90.BM.35, captured cropmarks, the faint differential patterns in growing vegetation that can betray buried features to a camera at altitude, even when those features have left no surface trace. Here the cropmarks revealed a sequence of fosses, that is, ditches, arranged in a pattern consistent with a field system, suggesting that this ridge was once deliberately divided and managed land. The landscape has since swallowed the evidence back up. Nearby, a separate enclosure has been recorded in close proximity and is considered possibly associated with the same complex, hinting that what lies beneath the fields of Rathduff may be somewhat more substantial than a single set of boundaries.