Walk across the ground and there is nothing to indicate that a carefully laid-out rectilinear pattern of fields once existed here, along with an irregularly shaped enclosure nearby. The only way to know it is there at all is to look down from above, where the buried boundaries betray themselves as crop marks, the subtle variations in colour and growth that appear in aerial or satellite imagery when underground features affect how plants take up moisture and nutrients.

The site was identified from a Digital Globe orthoimage captured between 2011 and 2013, with the find documented through the Sites and Monuments Record and noted in a personal communication from T. Condit. The rectilinear layout, a grid-like arrangement of straight-edged fields typical of organised agricultural land management, sits at one of the higher points in the surrounding landscape, with views stretching south towards Knockbrack. Researchers compiling the record, including David O'Connor and Christine Baker, noted that this field system may connect to a related system recorded separately in the adjoining field to the south, referenced in the SMR as DU004-057. If that interpretation is correct, the two together would represent a considerably larger organised landscape than either site suggests on its own.

Because the features are entirely invisible at ground level, there is little to observe on a conventional visit. The value here is really in understanding that the ordinary-looking fields around Tobertown conceal a legible ancient landscape, one that only becomes readable through the particular conditions of satellite imaging. The elevated position of the site means the surrounding terrain is open and gives a reasonable sense of why this spot might have been chosen for organised settlement or farming. Those with an interest in landscape archaeology might find it worthwhile to cross-reference the aerial imagery available through public mapping tools against the SMR coordinates, which provides a more satisfying engagement with the site than the ground alone ever could.