This is a ditch barrow, a type of funerary structure defined not by a raised mound but by a shallow encircling fosse, the Latin-derived term for a ditch or trench, cut into the ground around a flat central area. The result is the inverse of what many people picture when they think of a barrow. There is no hump, no earthen dome catching the light. The interior sits at the same level as the surrounding ground, and the defining fosse is only around ten centimetres deep and two metres wide. On foot, standing beside it, you might pass it entirely without notice.

The feature measures roughly six metres north to south and six and a half metres east to west, placing it within the northern sector of a wider enclosure. What makes it legible at all, beyond close inspection of the ground, is aerial photography. An OS aerial photograph, reference OS 2437/6, reveals it as a circular anomaly, the kind of subtle crop or soil mark that becomes visible only from altitude, where differential moisture retention or vegetation growth traces the outline of buried or near-surface features. The barrow sits just north of the centre of that enclosure, suggesting a deliberate placement within a defined ceremonial or territorial space, though the relationship between the two features and the precise period of their use remains unspecified by the available evidence.