The enclosure measures roughly 8.3 metres east to west and 7.5 metres north to south, with the bank itself rising only about 30 centimetres above the surrounding soil. It is modest to the point of near-invisibility, and a dense tangle of thorn bushes now covers the area, making it easy to walk past without registering what the ground beneath is quietly holding.

What the bank likely outlines is the remains of an early medieval house, one of the simplest and most personal kinds of archaeological feature: a place where someone actually lived. A gap on the north-western side of the enclosure may represent the original entrance. Crucially, the site sits only about 12 metres to the east of a separate ecclesiastical enclosure, and in December 1983, Professor E. Rynne noted the probable connection between the two. An ecclesiastical enclosure in this period would typically have surrounded an early church or monastic site, and domestic structures associated with such places were common; the people who maintained a church needed somewhere to sleep. Whether this particular building housed a cleric, a caretaker, or a lay person attached to a small religious community is a question the earthwork alone cannot answer.