Hill forts developed in the Late Bronze and Early Iron Age, roughly the start of the 1st millennium BCE.

They would be functional as defensive strongholds when there were tensions and undoubtedly some of them were attacked and destroyed, but this was not the only, or even the most significant, factor in their construction".

[4] The earthwork consists of a single circular rampart (univallate) up to 3 m high, with three holloway entrances dominated by linear banks extending out from the main perimeter.

[5] They also found evidence of refortifiction in the Iron Age, from the period before Roman occupation (around 43 CE).

The Ancient Monument is included on the Heritage at Risk Register due to its vulnerability to arable ploughing.