On a modern Ordnance Survey map it appears labelled as an enclosure, the kind of designation usually reserved for the circular earthworks of ancient farmsteads or ringforts. Look closer at the older maps, however, and a more mundane story emerges: the 25-inch OS map of 1895 records it plainly as a gravel pit, already disused by that point, and the 6-inch revision of 1922 marks it simply as a pit. Whatever it once supplied, it had long since been abandoned to the land.

By the time someone visited the site in 2002, the pit had softened considerably. It measured somewhere between 18 and 20 metres across, roughly subcircular in outline, and reached a maximum depth of about 2 metres along its western edge. Rushes had colonised the interior, that kind of dense, tufted growth that tends to take hold wherever ground holds moisture and disturbance has left the soil open. It is not listed in either the Sites and Monuments Record of 1992 or the Record of Monuments and Places from 1996, which means it sits outside the formal inventory of protected archaeological sites entirely. The enclosure label on the Discovery map appears to be a cartographic misreading rather than any recognition of archaeological significance.