It is, in fact, a ring barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument in which a central mound is enclosed by a surrounding ditch and outer bank, the whole arrangement marking a place of burial or ritual significance from the distant past.

The monument measures just seven metres across at its slightly raised central platform, enclosed by an earthen scarp that stands between fifteen and forty centimetres above the surrounding ground. Beyond that scarp lies a fosse, the formal term for the encircling ditch, roughly two and a half metres wide, and then an external bank ranging from just under two metres to about two and a half metres in width. The entire structure sits on the crest of a hillock oriented east to west, and the natural ground slopes away gently to the north, east, and south. The north-eastern third of the monument follows the underlying slope of the hillock itself, lending the site a slight tilt in that direction. Some twenty metres to the south-west-west lies a separate ditch barrow, making this a small but notable concentration of prehistoric earthworks in a single field. Such clustering is not unusual; funerary monuments of this kind were often placed in deliberate relationship with one another, whether to mark a shared landscape of memory or to signal territorial or ancestral significance across generations.