An enclosure is visible as an earthwork on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1]. A bank, c. 6m wide, demarks the northern and western sides of a rectilinear enclosure, whilst its south and east sides are formed by ditches belonging to the current field layout. The enclosure measures 30m (NW-SE) x 15m (SW-NE). All elements of the enclosure appear to have since been plough-levelled as recent aerial photography shows them as cropmarks [2].

The enclosure appears to be integrated with the field layout shown on historic Ordnance Survey mapping [3] and it probably represents a previously unrecorded element of this system, perhaps a sheepfold. 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 [4].

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

<3> Ordnance Survey, 1862-1875, Ordnance Survey 1:2500 1st Edition : 1862-1875 (Map). SWX11831.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2009-10, South-East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - Aerial Photographic Transcriptions (Digital archive). SWX15705.

<4> Wessex Archaeology, 2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document). SKE25955.

<4> 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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.