This rectangular enclosure, situated on wet ground crisscrossed by land drains and watercourses, was first spotted from above during the Bruff aerial photographic survey in 1986. The site appeared as a distinctive cropmark; a ghostly outline visible only under certain conditions, revealing where ancient ditches and earthworks once stood.

The moated site sits approximately 125 metres northeast of the Camoge River, with a ring-barrow located 220 metres to the southeast. These cropmarks tell a story of medieval settlement patterns, where such rectangular enclosures often served as defended homesteads, complete with water-filled ditches that provided both protection and drainage in this marshy landscape. The site’s visibility has proved frustratingly ephemeral; whilst clearly visible in aerial photographs from 1986 and again in orthoimages from 2005 to 2012, it had vanished from view by 2011 in Digital Globe imagery and remained invisible in Google Earth photographs taken in June 2018.

This disappearing act is typical of cropmark archaeology, where buried features reveal themselves only when conditions are just right; usually during dry spells when crops growing above ancient ditches retain more moisture and appear greener than surrounding vegetation. The site’s absence from historical Ordnance Survey maps suggests it had already faded from local memory long before modern aerial photography gave it a second life, however briefly, in the archaeological record.