A ditch barrow is a type of funerary enclosure defined not by a raised mound but by a surrounding fosse, a shallow ditch cut into the ground to mark off a circular area, leaving the interior at roughly the same level as the surrounding land. Most barrows, in the popular imagination, announce themselves as lumps in the landscape. This one does the opposite.

The monument sits on a naturally raised area above dry stream beds and water channels, a position that, even in prehistory, would have offered a degree of prominence without requiring any great engineering effort. The circular area measures approximately 4.5 metres north to south and 4 metres east to west, defined by a fosse roughly 1.5 metres wide and now only about 7 centimetres deep. That near-total flattening is partly the result of centuries of agricultural improvement, the same process that turned the surrounding ground into the tidy, manageable pasture it is today. A related enclosure sits approximately 2 metres to the east, suggesting that whatever activity took place here was not entirely isolated to this single, quietly eroded feature.