What makes it worth a second glance is not its scale, which is modest, but its orientation: the monument faces directly towards The Paps of Dana, the twin-peaked hills that dominate the skyline to the south and have carried religious and mythological significance in this landscape since prehistory. Whether that alignment was deliberate is impossible to say for certain, but it is difficult to ignore.

A ring barrow is a prehistoric burial monument, typically Bronze Age in origin, consisting of a low central mound or platform enclosed by a circular ditch, known as a fosse, and often surrounded by an outer earthen bank. This example follows that pattern closely. The enclosed circular area measures seven metres in diameter, ringed by a fosse that runs from the south-east around to the west, with fainter traces completing the circuit on the western to south-eastern arc. The external bank, between four metres wide and standing roughly half a metre high on its outer face, survives most clearly on the east-south-east to north-north-east portion of the circuit. A lower, intermittent bank continues the line around the north-north-east to east-south-east. There is a gap of just under three metres in the bank on the west-north-west side, which may represent an original entrance, though whether it was always open or was broken through at some later point is unclear. Together, the features are well-preserved enough to read as a coherent monument, even if no single element of it is dramatic in height or breadth.