Steep-sided and flat-topped, it measures 18.3 metres across at its base, narrowing to 4.8 metres at the summit and standing 3 metres high, built from a combination of earth and stone. That flat top is a telling detail. Unlike a natural drumlin or field clearance heap, this is the deliberate geometry of a mound barrow, a funerary monument of the kind raised by prehistoric communities to mark the dead and, perhaps, to anchor a claim on the land itself.

The mound sits on the eastern side of a low ridge running northwest to southeast, a position that would have given it a degree of visibility across the surrounding ground. It has not come through the centuries entirely undisturbed. Someone, at some point, dug away a portion of the top on the western side, and there is further disturbance to the southern flank, both common fates for monuments of this kind, which have attracted the attention of treasure-seekers and casual diggers across many generations. A disused trackway, modern in origin, curves around the mound on its western and northern sides, suggesting the feature was still being skirted and acknowledged even as the surrounding land was worked in more recent times.