That enclosure, a designated National Monument, appears to have been a structured ritual space, and the barrow sits to its western interior as if positioned with intention rather than convenience. The combination, a burial feature nested inside a grander enclosing earthwork, hints at a layered use of the site across prehistoric time.

The barrow itself is oval, measuring roughly 14 metres north to south and 17 metres east to west, defined by a fosse, the encircling ditch, approximately 2.45 metres wide and 0.4 metres deep. The fosse is not continuous: it appears to be in-filled at the northeast, where there may have been a causeway perhaps 10 metres wide, and again at the west-southwest to west-northwest, where the monument seems partially levelled. There are possible traces of an external bank to the southeast and south. Much of this would be invisible to a casual visitor on the ground. The site first came to clearer attention when it was identified as an oval cropmark on an aerial photograph taken on 30th April 1979, the kind of shadow-and-contrast effect that reveals buried or degraded earthworks only from above. Cahill, writing in 1982, described the surface evidence more cautiously as traces of a mound-like feature. Further complexity emerged when a second ring barrow was identified in the southwest quadrant of the same ceremonial enclosure, visible not from the ground but through three-dimensional modelling of survey data.