Yet what looks like a minor irregularity in the grass is in fact a ditch barrow, a prehistoric funerary monument defined not by a raised mound but by a surrounding fosse, the term used for a cut or dug ditch, with a low interior platform. This one measures roughly eight metres across, with the fosse running to about 2.7 metres wide, though only around fifteen centimetres deep today. The centre retains a noticeable depression, which is typical of the form.

The site sits on a naturally elevated area of undulating ground, its boundaries partly shaped by drainage water channels. It was identified during a field survey carried out by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly on 2 February 2009. What makes its setting more interesting than the monument in isolation is how it fits into the immediate landscape. Two further ditch barrows lie within just a few metres, one to the east-northeast and one to the north-northeast, suggesting this elevated ground was treated as a place of burial or commemoration over a period of time rather than as a single event. An enclosure of a different type sits roughly 58 metres to the southwest. An 1906 Ordnance Survey map records a farm trackway running close by, about 20 metres to the east, a reminder that agricultural life continued for centuries around monuments whose original meaning had long since been forgotten.