It sits on a gentle north-north-westerly facing slope with open views spreading in every direction, the kind of position that suggests whoever chose the site was thinking about more than farming convenience.

The monument appears on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1840, already old enough then to be recorded simply as a circular enclosed bank, no name attached, no function noted. By 1999, when it was formally described, surveyors found a raised sub-circular area measuring roughly 42 metres north to south and 38 metres east to west, defined by a scarp and a quarried fosse. A fosse is a ditch, typically cut to reinforce the defensive or boundary effect of an earthen bank, and here the combined width of scarp and fosse runs to about 5.3 metres, narrowing to 1.6 metres at the base, with an internal depth of around 2 metres. A field boundary running east to west cuts across the northern side of the monument; this boundary post-dates 1700, meaning it was imposed on the landscape well after the earthwork itself had ceased to serve whatever original purpose it had. Satellite imagery taken between 2011 and 2013 still shows the raised oval clearly, though the southeastern edge of the scarp has been partially quarried away at some point, a common fate for monuments that sit in working agricultural land.

The site lies in pasture, so access depends entirely on the landowner, and there is no formal visitor infrastructure of any kind. What the ground actually shows at close range is subtle rather than dramatic: a gentle rise, a worn dip where the fosse runs, and the interruption of that later field wall cutting through the north. The southeast quadrant, where quarrying has reduced the scarp, is the least legible part of the monument. The surrounding slope gives the site an unexpectedly open feel, the views in all directions being perhaps the most immediately striking thing about it once you are standing there.