It is a ring barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument in which a central mound, typically covering a burial, is encircled by a fosse (a ditch) and an outer earthen bank, the whole arrangement functioning as a kind of bounded sacred space around the dead. This particular example measures just under 25 metres across in total, with the inner mound reaching roughly 11 metres in diameter and standing less than a metre high. That it survives at all in recognisable form, in working farmland, is itself quietly remarkable.

The monument has not come through entirely unscathed. The southwestern section of the outer bank has been lost entirely, the result of quarrying recorded by McCaffrey in the early 1950s. The southeastern sector has fared little better, with field-clearance material, the stones and debris shifted to tidy up surrounding land, piled against it over the years. These are common fates for prehistoric earthworks in agricultural landscapes, where the logic of the working farm and the logic of archaeological preservation rarely coincide neatly. What remains, though, is described as well-preserved, which in this context means the flat-topped mound and much of the encircling fosse are still legible in the landscape as a coherent whole, their original geometry still readable beneath the centuries of use and neglect.