It lies to the south of Herefordshire Beacon with views to Eastnor Castle.

The hillfort is protected as a Scheduled Ancient Monument and is owned by Natural England.

Bowden speculates that the spring within the valley "enhance[s] the position of the hillfort as a site of symbolic value".

[3] The rampart and ditch were built around 390 BC and it is thought that the settlement was occupied by 1500 people until it was destroyed by fire in AD 48.

[2] In The Ley Hunter's Companion Paul Devereux theorised that a 10-mile alignment he called the "Malvern Ley" passed through St Ann's Well, the Wyche Cutting, a section of the Shire Ditch, Midsummer Hill, Whiteleaved Oak, Redmarley D'Abitot and Pauntley.