An enclosure of this type would originally have formed a roughly circular or oval boundary, defined by a raised bank and possibly a ditch, enclosing a dwelling, a farmstead, or a defended space. What is left here is considerably less than the whole, and that partial survival is itself part of what makes the site quietly interesting.

By the time the third edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map was produced in 1932, only the south-western quadrant of the enclosure was recorded, suggesting that much of the monument had already been lost or obscured. What remains on the ground today is a short section of a bank surviving at the south, while from the south-south-west around to the north-north-west the enclosing element takes the form of a scarp, a natural-looking slope or step in the ground that here marks the line of the original boundary. A pit is visible at the northern side. A field fence, almost certainly a post-medieval or modern addition, cuts across the monument at both north and south, and to the east of that fence no surface trace of the enclosure can be made out at all. The monument has, in effect, been divided by agricultural land management, with roughly half of it now invisible at ground level.