A low rise and a series of faint undulations in the pasture mark out a rough circle of about 38 metres across, enough to suggest where an enclosed settlement once stood on a gently sloping, south-east-facing hillside. Local memory holds that the rath, as this type of earthwork enclosure is known, was levelled at some point in the past, the bank and ditch graded down to make the land more workable. What remains is, in effect, the ghost of a structure.

The site has a paper trail that stretches back to the mid-nineteenth century. It was recorded as 'East Nantenane fort' in the 1840s, and by 1846 the Ordnance Survey had mapped it as a circular enclosure of roughly 40 metres in diameter. By the time the revised six-inch map was produced in 1895, the shape had been recorded slightly differently, as an oval measuring approximately 40 metres north to south and 35 metres east to west, and something quietly telling appears on that later map: a field boundary curves deliberately around the western arc of the enclosure. Whoever drew that boundary line, or whoever instructed it to be drawn that way, chose to work around the old ring rather than through it. It is a small act of accommodation, and it suggests that even as the earthwork itself was being reduced, there was still some awareness of what it represented. Ringforts of this kind, built largely during the early medieval period, typically served as farmsteads for a single family, their banks and ditches offering both a defined boundary and a degree of protection for people and livestock. The contrast between that earlier deference and the eventual levelling of the site is itself a kind of local history.