It is an embanked barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument consisting of a raised bank enclosing a roughly level interior area, and this one is unusually wide without being especially tall. The enclosing bank, which averages 8.7 metres across but rises only about half a metre above the interior, defines a subcircular space some 29 metres in diameter. There is no accompanying ditch, which sets it apart from the more familiar ring-barrow form, and no trace of an original entrance has been identified anywhere along its circuit.

The field itself adds a layer of visual confusion. Its surface is uneven, scattered with long curvilinear natural banks of earth, so the monument does not immediately read as something deliberate or ancient. A farm gate sits just south of the enclosure, and the remains of a byre along with a few smaller agricultural structures have been built directly onto the southern portion of the bank, blurring its outline further. The site was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch sheets using a hachured plan, a technique that uses short lines to suggest relief and slope, which at least preserved its shape on paper even as later agricultural use reshaped it on the ground. Compiled by archaeologist Geraldine Stout, the record notes that no features were discernible on the interior, leaving the question of what, or who, the monument once enclosed entirely open.