Ringforts, roughly circular enclosures built mainly during the early medieval period between around 500 and 1000 AD, were the farmsteads of their era, used for settlement and the protection of livestock. Most have at least one clear break in their bank marking the original gateway. This one, apparently, does not.

The enclosure itself is modest in scale, around 35 metres across, and is defined by a bank of earth and stone that stands considerably more prominent on its outer face, roughly 1.4 metres high on the outside compared to only 0.2 metres on the interior. That difference in height is typical of how such banks were constructed, the material thrown inward from an external ditch, though no ditch is noted here. The site occupies the top of a small hill set within the valley floor, and the views it commands in all directions would have made it well suited to anyone wanting to monitor the surrounding landscape. A field boundary running east to west clips the northern edge of the monument, a reminder of how working agriculture has quietly adjusted itself around these early medieval survivals over the centuries without always erasing them.