Cropmarks of an enclosure are visible within an area of intense geological patterning in fields south of Island Road between Hersden and Upstreet on 1980s RCHME oblique aerial photographs [1].

Three sides of a ditched enclosure are visible, enclosing an area at least 40m (NW-SE) by 35m (NE-SW). There is an apparent entrance gap, c.5m wide, in the southern side of the enclosure close to the southern corner. A slight south-eastwards curve at the end of the northern side of the enclosure may suggest that the ditch is returning to form a fourth, eastern, side. Any such feature is, however, obscured by cropmarks derived from geological cracking and modern ploughing practice.

There are several other cropmarked features in this area which are interpreted as deriving from later prehistoric to Romano-British activity (TR 26 SW 59, MWX43090, MWX43095). These include an enclosure of similar shape and dimensions lying 1km to the NE (MWX43104).

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [2]

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<2> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<2> Cornwall Council Historic Environment Projects and Gloucestershire County Council, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document). SKE25954.