What may once have been a prehistoric burial mound, or possibly a stepped-barrow, a type of funerary monument built in tiered stages, now presents as a low, roughly circular rise just twelve metres across and no more than two metres high at its tallest. At its centre is a smaller raised area, three to four metres wide, uneven and visibly disturbed. A curvilinear earthen bank trails away to the east, surrounded by a scatter of humps and hollows where the ground has been broken up over time. The mound is not easily read from the air; what shows most clearly on aerial photography is a large oval depression to the west, roughly 55 by 58 metres, almost certainly the scar left by post-1700 quarrying.

The complications of this site go back at least to the nineteenth century. The mound does not appear on the 1837 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, though quarrying was already visible in the same field around 170 metres to the south-east. By the time the revised 25-inch map was produced in 1913, the spot had been chosen as an Ordnance Survey triangulation station, a fixed reference point used in the systematic mapping of the country. That decision may itself have altered the mound, since establishing a trig. station on an earthwork could involve levelling, consolidation, or other modification to the surface. The deep, broad circular depression now visible on the north-west side appears to be further evidence of quarrying. Taken together, these successive interventions, mapmakers, quarry workers, and the slow churn of agricultural land, have left something genuinely difficult to interpret. Whether the original monument was a simple round barrow or something more architecturally deliberate remains an open question.