It measures roughly thirteen metres north to south and just over eleven metres east to west, rising no more than sixty-five centimetres at its highest point. That modest hump is what remains of a barrow, a prehistoric burial mound, and the fact that it remains at all is partly a matter of luck.

By 1913, when the Ordnance Survey recorded the area on its six-inch map, the feature was legible enough to be marked as a circular hachured outline, the conventional symbol surveyors used to indicate a rounded earthwork, with an estimated diameter of somewhere between ten and fifteen metres. Since then it has been partly levelled, most likely through agricultural activity over the intervening century. The slight asymmetry that survives, with the ground rising more noticeably at the north-east than at the south-east, suggests the monument was never entirely uniform, or that the levelling has been uneven. Either way, what the eye catches now is less a mound than a faint interruption in the slope, a circular area just raised enough to sit differently from the pasture around it.