The mound at Mooresfort is not the kind of monument that announces itself. It sits almost flush with the surrounding land, its presence detectable mainly by a slight raising of the ground and the ghost of a fosse, the encircling ditch that once defined its boundary, curving around it from the east-southeast, through the south, and on to the west-northwest.

The mound itself is a near-circular form, measuring roughly 7.75 metres north to south and just under 7 metres east to west. An embanked barrow is a prehistoric funerary monument, typically a mounded earthwork enclosed by a ditch and sometimes an outer bank, built to mark a place of burial. Here, the fosse survives only in vestigial form, its base width reaching about 2.75 metres and its overall width extending to around 5.45 metres, but its depth has been reduced to a matter of centimetres. The northern portion of the monument has fared worse still. It sits at the edge of what is now a dry watercourse, and that proximity cost it dearly during drainage works at some point in the past, which levelled that sector of the earthwork almost entirely. Inside the mound, there is a shallow D-shaped depression, slightly off-centre towards the south, a small hollow that is itself only about one and a half centimetres deep, but which hints at some disturbance or original feature beneath the surface.

What makes this site quietly arresting is how completely ordinary farmland management has worn it down without quite erasing it. The old watercourse that once ran along its northern edge, now dry, shaped both the monument's setting and, eventually, its partial destruction. The whole thing was identified not by fieldwork but from the air, its subtle topography only legible from above, where the difference between a slightly raised, circular patch of ground and its surroundings becomes visible in the right light and at the right angle.