It is a ring barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument typically dating to the Bronze Age, consisting of a central burial mound encircled by a shallow ditch, known as a fosse, and an outer earthen bank. The combination of mound, fosse, and bank gave these monuments their name and their quietly formal geometry, a series of concentric rings that read in the landscape as something deliberately made, even after millennia of weathering.

This particular example measures roughly eleven metres north to south and just under ten metres east to west, rising to a height of about 1.2 metres. The surrounding fosse is shallow, and the external bank, still traceable, stands only about 0.4 metres high. Someone at some point dug into the top of the mound, leaving a hollow up to 0.4 metres deep, the kind of disturbance that was common in earlier centuries when curiosity, or the hope of finding something valuable, outpaced any concern for preservation. More pressingly, ongoing land reclamation has been cutting into the outer edge of the bank, a slow attrition that is harder to reverse than a single act of digging. The monument sits in working upland terrain, and the encroachment of agricultural improvement on its margins is a reminder that many such sites survive not through protection but through the simple indifference of ground that has never been worth improving, until, gradually, it is.