It measures roughly 4.75 metres north to south and 4.6 metres east to west, defined by a shallow fosse, essentially a narrow encircling ditch, just 1.2 metres wide and barely four centimetres deep at the time it was recorded. What makes it quietly odd is that the interior sits at exactly the same height as the surrounding ground, with no central mound, no raised platform. It is, in the most literal sense, a monument defined almost entirely by absence.

This is a ditch barrow, a type of funerary or ritual enclosure associated broadly with prehistoric burial practice, where the defining feature is the encircling ditch rather than an earthen mound above a grave. The monument was identified during a field survey carried out by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly on 9 December 2008. It does not sit alone. A second ditch barrow lies approximately 31 metres to the east, and roughly 52 metres to the west-southwest there is a ring-barrow alongside yet another ditch barrow, giving the immediate landscape a quiet density of prehistoric funerary activity that the rough pasture does little to advertise. The monument looks northward and eastward over what was once open bog, a landscape that would have looked quite different to whoever chose this spot. That bog was planted with conifers around the year 2000, altering the view that had persisted, in some form, for millennia.