The barrow at Mooresfort survives as a sub-circular area roughly four metres across, defined by the ghostly remains of a fosse, which is simply a shallow encircling ditch, no more than fifteen centimetres deep and about two metres wide. The interior sits just five centimetres below the surrounding ground level, a difference easily missed underfoot.

What makes this monument's survival at all knowable is aerial photography rather than any obvious surface feature. Seen from above, the ring-ditch, the circular trench that once defined the perimeter of a burial mound, became legible in a way it simply cannot be at ground level. A ditch barrow of this type would originally have consisted of a low earthen mound enclosed within that surrounding ditch, the whole structure marking a place of burial in the prehistoric period. At Mooresfort, the mound itself has long since been levelled by centuries of agricultural activity, and even the fosse has been further disrupted; a field boundary running roughly north-northwest to south-southeast cuts across the western sector of the monument, leaving that portion with no visible trace at all. The rest survives only marginally better, flattened but not entirely erased.