It covers about 3.2 ha (7.9 acres) and is surrounded by two earth banks separated by a ditch with an entrance in the western end.

Pottery, loom weights and animal bone finds suggest some form of occupation however.

The most activity appears to have been during the Roman period as the artefacts recovered from the upper fills of the ditch attest.

It links to the Icknield Way at the Goring Gap, and passes close to Avebury before heading south across Salisbury Plain.

It also passes very close to a Neolithic chambered long barrow, Waylands Smithy, about a mile to the west.