Located about 70 metres east of Collop’s Well on a gentle east-facing slope, this enigmatic feature was first documented on the 1835 Ordnance Survey map as an embanked or moated enclosure measuring roughly 45 metres square. By the time the 1908 edition was produced, the site appeared merely as a small rectangular field, approximately 40 by 35 metres, with a field bank cutting through its northern edge.

Today, you won’t spot any trace of this potential moated site at ground level; the pasture has reclaimed whatever structures once stood here, and even aerial photography fails to reveal its outline. The feature was first brought to modern attention by local historian Catherine McLoughlin, who recognised its potential significance from the old maps. Moated sites like this one typically date from the Anglo-Norman period, when wealthy landowners constructed defensive homesteads surrounded by water-filled ditches, though without excavation, the true nature and date of this particular site remains speculative.

The fact that this site appeared so prominently on the 1835 map suggests it was still a notable landscape feature in the early 19th century, perhaps with banks or ditches still visible to the surveyors of the time. Its gradual disappearance from maps and memory offers a fascinating glimpse into how quickly agricultural improvements and changing land use can erase centuries of history, leaving only the faintest cartographic ghosts to hint at what once existed.