[2] A moat was usually created as a status symbol, around a domestic or religious building, rather than for practical defence.

[1] In a description of the village in 1924, for the Victoria County History series, it was thought to be possibly the site of a cattle enclosure.

Halfway along the west side is an original entrance 7 metres (23 ft) wide.

The space enclosed is about 0.3 hectares (0.74 acres); the uneven ground there indicates that there are buried features.

[1] Adjacent to the north-east is the site of a medieval settlement; it has been ploughed in recent times, but evidence remains of streets, orientated north-west to south-east, and homesteads of the village.