Just ten centimetres, barely enough to notice underfoot, yet that slight elevation marks what survives of a ditch barrow, a prehistoric funerary monument whose defining feature is a circular enclosing fosse, or ditch, dug around a low central mound. Most barrows of this type have been substantially reduced by centuries of agriculture, and this one is no exception.

The monument occupies a sub-circular area roughly five metres north to south and just over four metres east to west. Around it runs the faint trace of a shallow fosse, about one and a half metres wide but now only five centimetres deep, open across the north-east to north-west arc. That northern sector has been levelled entirely, most likely by ploughing or soil movement on the uphill side. What makes the site slightly more legible is that the whole arrangement sits within a larger, subtler feature: a sub-circular area of around twelve metres in diameter, defined by a low scarp just twenty centimetres high, running from the north-east around to the north-west. Whether that outer feature is a related element of the original monument or a later land boundary is not recorded. The barrow was identified during a field survey carried out by Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly on 5 December 2008, which is to say it entered the archaeological record relatively recently, despite almost certainly having been there for several thousand years.