A cist is a box-shaped grave formed from upright slabs and a covering stone, typically used during the Bronze Age to hold the remains of the dead. Here, the grave itself survives almost intact in its dimensions, roughly 1.6 metres east to west and 0.7 metres north to south, but the missing stones mean it no longer holds its original enclosure. Whatever it once contained, whether bone, cremated remains, or accompanying objects, is a matter for speculation rather than record.

The monument as a whole follows the classic ring barrow form: a roughly circular area, approximately 11 metres across, enclosed by a fosse, or ditch, cut to around 0.6 metres deep, with an earthen bank raised to about 0.8 metres on the outer edge. What makes this example slightly more legible than many is the preserved entrance, a gap of about 2.55 metres on the eastern side with a causeway left across the ditch so that the interior could be approached without crossing the fosse itself. The interior is level. The whole structure sits in rough grazing land, which has likely helped preserve the earthworks from more intensive agricultural disturbance.