The enclosure that surrounds it was not built as a graveyard. It is the surviving remnant of a bivallate enclosure, meaning a site originally defined by two concentric banks or walls, which would have been a significant earthwork in its time. By the nineteenth century, whoever held the demesne had repurposed the interior for burial, and the OS six-inch map of 1947 to 1948 still labels it plainly as "Burial Ground (Private)".

What survives today is a subcircular earthwork measuring roughly 22 metres east to west and 20.5 metres north to south internally, defined by a bank with a collapsed drystone wall laid over it. Outside the bank runs a berm, a flat shelf of ground about seven metres wide, which drops away at its outer edge via a scarp reaching up to one metre in height. Beyond that, traces of a possible fosse, essentially a defensive ditch, cut across the northern end of the ridge from the south-east around to the south-west. These features suggest the original enclosure had more elaborate boundaries than what now remains visible. The monument has been disturbed by quarrying, most notably at the north, and to a lesser degree at the south-south-east and south-south-west, which has complicated any reading of how complete the original earthwork once was. The burial ground itself is described as overgrown, the two phases of the site, ancient enclosure and nineteenth-century private graveyard, both quietly dissolving back into the ridge they occupy.