Drumlins are the smooth, elongated hills left behind by retreating glaciers, and their rounded tops were occasionally chosen in prehistory as locations for enclosures or burial monuments. This one is quietly peculiar: it has no visible entrance, which makes it difficult to read as a straightforward settlement enclosure, and the possibility that it is something older and more ceremonial has not been ruled out.

The feature appears on Ordnance Survey six-inch maps from both 1837 and 1914, recorded each time as a circular form with a diameter of around thirty metres. On the ground today, the platform is somewhat smaller, roughly twenty-five metres across, and rises only between thirty and sixty centimetres above the surrounding surface. It is defined by a fosse, which is a shallow ditch, and an outer bank beyond it. The southern side, where measurements have been taken, shows a fosse about three metres wide at the top and just under a metre deep, with an outer bank of around one and a half metres in width. The whole thing is overgrown. The absence of any identifiable entrance has led to the suggestion that it may be a ring-barrow, a type of prehistoric funerary monument in which a low mound or platform is encircled by a ditch and bank, often associated with burial rather than habitation. If that is what this is, it would place it within a tradition of monument-building stretching back several thousand years, though no excavation has been carried out to confirm it.