As at North Ingleby, the earthworks indicate a complex series of changes which the documents do not begin to hint at. Dominating them, and hitherto the only settlement feature recognised, is a moated enclosure with its long sides slightly splayed out in a symmetrical double-rhomboid shape. Its south half is apparently sub-divided, but closer examination shows that the ditch surrounding the south-west platform or enclosure is more deeply and broadly dug and protrudes significantly at its north-west and north-east corners beyond the adjacent ditch alignment. This is likely to have been the principal manorial moat containing residential buildings, just as did the later farm. A raised platform along the east side of this enclosure and stone scatters mark these sites. The causeway access in the middle of the north side may be original though the gap itself is of recent creation formed by pushing material from the platform into the ditch. The whole north half of the overall moated complex and the l-shaped portion south and east of the main platform, now obliterated by the present farmyard, can be seen as ancillary closes to the smaller core. Indeed the marked kink on its west may suggest that the greater part of the north half is likely to be an extension to an earlier complex. {1}{2}{3}{4}{5}{6}