The enclosure itself is modest enough in scale, about 24 metres in diameter, defined by a low earthen scarp and a shallow external fosse, the term for a ditch cut around a monument or settlement as a boundary or defensive feature. What it contains, however, is not the domestic archaeology typically associated with such forms. A ditch barrow, a type of funerary mound ringed by its own enclosing ditch, occupies the approximate centre of the interior, raising the possibility that the whole site was arranged, at some point in its history, around an act of burial.

The enclosure survives as a gently raised area on a slight natural rise in elevated pasture, its earthworks still legible despite their low profile. The scarp reaches only 0.65 metres in height, and the external fosse is shallow, around 0.2 metres deep. Notably, the fosse disappears altogether along the north-east to south-east arc, where the earthwork merges into the underlying natural slope of the ground. This means either the builders used the existing topography as a substitute for a cut ditch on that side, or the evidence has simply been lost. No original entrance is identifiable. The site was recorded from aerial photography, which is how many such low-lying earthworks first come to wider attention, the relief visible from above in slanted light in ways that are invisible at ground level.