An enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. A ditch demarks three sides of a rectilinear enclosure with the fourth, north-western, side formed by a field ditch belonging to the current field layout. The enclosure measures 40m (SW-NE) x 20m (NW-SE). The ditched elements of the enclosure appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show it as a cropmark [2]. The field ditch forming the fourth side also appears to have been removed and is shown as infilled and part of the ploughed field on recent aerial photography [3].

The enclosure appears to be integrated with the field layout shown on historic Ordnance Survey mapping and probably represents a previously unrecorded element of this system [4]. This field system is likely to be of medieval or post-medieval date and derive from land reclaimed from the Wantsum Channel.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [5].

<3> Google Earth (Graphic material). SWX15704.

<4> Ordnance Survey, 1862-1875, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1862-1875 (Map). SWX11831.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<5> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<5> 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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.