Four metres across and ringed by a shallow fosse, a fosse being simply a ditch cut into the earth to define or enclose a space, the monument is easy to miss. Its interior is level and clear of overgrowth, which gives it an oddly tidy quality for something prehistoric, as though the land around it has quietly agreed to leave it alone.

What makes this particular barrow worth pausing over is less the individual monument than the company it keeps. It belongs to a cluster of five burial monuments in close proximity, a concentration that suggests deliberate, repeated use of this ground across what was likely a considerable span of prehistoric time. Ring barrows of this kind, circular mounds or platforms defined by a surrounding ditch, are generally associated with Bronze Age funerary practice, though their precise date and function vary considerably from site to site. Three further ring barrows lie to the south-east, at roughly 70 metres and 80 metres distance, and a third sits just 15 metres to the north-east. A ditch barrow, a related but formally distinct monument type, lies approximately 50 metres to the south-west. Together, they map out what was once, in all likelihood, a landscape organised around the dead.