Positioned on an east-facing slope with views stretching towards another moated site some 450 metres away, this historic platform once stood as a defensive homestead, likely dating from the Anglo-Norman period. The site appears on the earliest Ordnance Survey maps from 1839, marked as a rectangular enclosure measuring approximately 38 metres north to south and between 46 to 70 metres east to west, situated just south of a farmyard with buildings arranged in a square pattern.

By the time of the 1948 revision of the Ordnance Survey maps, cartographers had expanded their understanding of the site’s boundaries, suggesting the entire area, including the farmyard, comprised the moated platform, all surrounded by a water-filled channel. Historical records from Barry’s 1977 survey describe a flat platform with a 3.4-metre-wide entrance on its northern side, though the defining moat that once protected this settlement was unfortunately removed in 1964, erasing one of its most distinctive medieval features.

Today, the site presents as a large, roughly square platform measuring about 76 by 80 metres, with only faint traces of its former fosse or moat visible along the southern side and at the southern end of the eastern boundary. Modern life has thoroughly colonised this ancient space; a house occupies the northwestern sector, whilst large agricultural buildings dominate the centre of the interior. Two substantial silage pits have been constructed immediately to the east, still within the monument’s boundaries, and additional farm buildings now extend beyond where the protective moat once flowed, creating a palimpsest where medieval defensive architecture meets contemporary farming needs.