Shallow earthworks are visible on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. Examination of modern aerial photographs indicates that they have been plough-levelled [2].

The earthworks are composed of a two interlinked sinuous ditches, one aligned NW-SE and 190m long the other is roughly perpendicular to this and 140m long. They are interpreted as elements of field systems created on land reclaimed from the Wantsum Channel from the 11th century onwards. All features recorded appear to predate the field layout shown on historic Ordnance Survey mapping, itself of probable late post-medieval date, as they demark significantly less regular enclosures and are on a very different alignment.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [3].

<2> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<3> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<3> 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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.