name Alabum is known from a 7th-century list of places known as the Ravenna Cosmography and is identified as this particular fort from the arrangement of the named places along the Roman road network.

The western side of the site has some well preserved scarped banks although much of the fort has been built-over or otherwise obscured. Early documentation of the site was made in 1873, where it was suggested it could be the location for 'Loventinum', a place