Sentence:  The hovel stood in the centre of what had once been a vegetable garden, but was now a patch of rank weeds. Surrounding this, almost like a zareba, was an irregular ring of gorse and brambles, an unclaimed <WSD>vestige</WSD> of the original common. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains.