An enclosure and a short section of a bank are visible as earthworks on 1940s RAF vertical aerial photographs [1].

The enclosure is square in plan and defined by 4m wide bank which encloses an area c.10m across. It lies at the corner of a field and has no obvious entrance, the bank lies to its immediate south. The bank starts abruptly at a field drain and cannot be traced to its west. It follows an approximately W-E alignment for the first 17m, then turns and runs north-eastwards for 15m, then turns again and runs south-eastwards for 85m before tapering out and becoming imperceptible. Both features appear to have been plough-levelled by the 1960s as Ordnance Survey vertical aerial photographs of this date show them as cropmarks [2].

The enclosure appears to be integrated with the post-medieval field system shown in this area on historic Ordnance Survey mapping [3] and is likely to be contemporary. Its function is unclear but it is likely to be an agricultural feature. The bank is on a differing alignment and may predate this field layout. It may be a water management feature related to the reclamation of land from the Wantsum Channel during the medieval and earlier post-medieval periods.

A transcription of the features recorded from aerial photography exists within a GIS layer held by this HER [4].

<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2011, South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey - (SE RCZAS) Phase 1: National Mapping Programme Report (Unpublished document).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South East Rapid Coastal Zone Assessment Survey National Mapping Programme Components 1&2: Results of NMP Mapping (Unpublished document).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.