The mound itself is modest, just 4.5 metres across and 0.7 metres high, flat-topped, and encircled by a fosse, the shallow ditch that in ring-barrow construction typically separates the burial mound from the surrounding landscape, often accompanied by an outer earthen bank. That bank survives here, at least in traces, giving the structure a legibility that many comparable sites have lost to centuries of farming and weather.

Ring-barrows are generally associated with Bronze Age funerary practice, raised over the remains of the dead at a time when the marking of burial with earth and enclosure carried considerable ritual weight. What makes the Farneigh hilltop particularly striking is not any single monument but the density of them. This barrow sits immediately south-east of a pair of conjoined barrows, with three further ring-barrows ranged to the west, north, and south-east, and a ringfort to the north-west. The ringfort belongs to a later tradition, typically early medieval in date, and its presence alongside the Bronze Age barrows suggests this elevated ground held significance across a very long stretch of time, perhaps because the hilltop itself was seen as a meaningful place, a boundary, a landmark, or simply somewhere the dead could be seen from a distance.