This is a ditch barrow, a type of prehistoric burial monument defined not by a raised mound but by a surrounding fosse, the term used for a shallow dug ditch, which marks out the consecrated or set-apart ground at its centre. What makes this particular example worth pausing over is its modest scale and its position: the eastern side of the monument dispenses with a dug fosse entirely, borrowing instead the natural or constructed scarp that forms part of the enclosing earthwork around it.

The monument is roughly oval in plan, measuring approximately three metres north to south and three and a half metres east to west. The fosse itself, running from the south-east around through west to north, is shallow by any measure, just ten centimetres deep and about one and a third metres wide. These are not dramatic earthworks. The barrow sits on the edge of a scarp at the eastern side, and that scarp is shared with the boundary of the larger enclosure within which the barrow lies, suggesting some deliberate relationship between the two features, though whether they are contemporary or one predates the other is not recorded. Dense vegetation at the north-east and east-south-east further blurs the picture, obscuring what definition the monument might otherwise show.