Whatever once stood here had already disappeared by the time cartographers came to record it in the nineteenth century, leaving nothing but a rectangular smear of grass-covered foundations, roughly four metres north to south and two and a half metres east to west, and two small mounds of stone to the south. The structure is recorded as a turret, though the word now applies to an outline so faint it reads more like a rumour in the turf than anything architectural.

The most plausible explanation is that this was a folly, a deliberately ornamental or whimsical structure of the kind that Georgian and Victorian landowners occasionally placed on their estates to create a sense of antiquity or to punctuate a view. Fairfield House, whose estate this ridge was probably once part of, lies some 860 metres to the south-east. A turret positioned on higher ground at that distance would have served precisely the scenic purpose follies were built for, visible from the house as a feature on the horizon, and perhaps interesting to walk to. That it had already collapsed or been demolished before the first systematic mapping of the area suggests it was either poorly built, short-lived, or simply dismantled when the fashion passed.