It is easy to walk past without recognising it for what it is. The site is a ditch barrow, a type of funerary monument in which a low mound or levelled interior is enclosed by a surrounding ditch, or fosse, rather than built up into an obvious earthen heap. The effect is subtle, and here it is subtler still: the circular area measures only eight metres in diameter, defined by a fosse roughly two metres wide and now just fifteen centimetres deep. On the western and south-western arc, that ditch remains waterlogged, a detail that quietly points to the wetter, less managed landscape this field once was.

The monument was identified during a field survey carried out by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly on 2 February 2009, at which point the improved pasture and drainage works had already altered the ground considerably. Former water channels were still visible across the land, suggesting it had once been poorly drained or seasonally flooded, the kind of marginal terrain that prehistoric communities sometimes chose for burial and ritual. A second ditch barrow sits approximately fourteen metres to the south-south-east, making this part of a small cluster rather than an isolated find. An 1906 Ordnance Survey map records a farm trackway running about ten metres to the east, indicating the area has been in agricultural use for well over a century, the monument enduring quietly alongside it. The interior of the barrow has been causing the ground to sit unevenly, which is often the only visible clue that something older lies beneath the surface of an otherwise ordinary-looking field.