This historic earthwork first appeared on the 1840 Ordnance Survey map as a roughly square enclosure, but had vanished from the maps by the time surveyors returned in the early 1900s; likely levelled to make way for farming sometime during those intervening sixty years.

Though the monument was flattened for tillage, it hasn’t completely disappeared from view. Aerial photographs taken by the Air Corps reveal its ghostly outline as a cropmark, with the northern and western sides showing as crisp, straight lines whilst the eastern and southern boundaries appear more fragmented and unclear. These marks in the crops occur because the old moat’s fill retains moisture differently than the surrounding soil, affecting plant growth and creating visible patterns from above.

Even at ground level, careful observers can still detect traces of this medieval site. Despite centuries of ploughing, a subtle raised platform marks where the enclosed area once stood, measuring approximately 28.6 metres north to south and 25.8 metres east to west. This gentle rise, barely 37 centimetres high and spreading about 10 metres wide, serves as a quiet reminder of the defensive homestead that once commanded this spot, its protective water-filled moat long since filled in and forgotten.