[1][2] In 2013 it was added to the Heritage at Risk Register due to vulnerability to plant growth.

[4] The site, which covers 0.8 hectares (2.0 acres),[4] is surrounded by a single rampart with a ditch and has a simple opening on the East, uphill side.

The lack of any water supply would argue against any permanent human occupation and against its use as a livestock enclosure, although two more level areas inside the earthwork have been identified as possible building platforms.

[10] Hill-slope enclosures are found in South West England dating from the first and second millennium BC.

When excavated, they have sometimes been found to have had settlements inside them, resembling defensible farmsteads,[9] but the extreme steepness of this site and its location halfway up the scarp of the Quantocks make it difficult to assign it a purely practical purpose.