What makes this particular spot quietly compelling is not the visible remains, which are effectively none, but the description left behind by someone who saw it before the vegetation closed in.

Writing between 1849 and 1851, a scholar named Moore recorded a structure he called a quadrangular fort, complete with the usual fosse and rampart, the fosse being the external ditch and the rampart the raised earthen bank that together defined such enclosures. More unusually, he noted that within the enclosed space there were foundations of small cells, perhaps half a dozen of them, built in what he described as regular masonry. He believed the stonework to be broadly contemporary with the earthworks surrounding it. His account is careful and qualified throughout, the observations of someone working from memory, but it is specific enough to suggest a site of genuine complexity, an earthen enclosure containing a cluster of stone-built structures whose function remains unclear. When the site was revisited in 2016, the overgrowth had become so dense that none of the internal features Moore described could be identified at all.