No earthwork rises above the surface, no stones mark a perimeter, and nothing in the landscape hints at what is there. The only reason we know it exists at all is a single aerial photograph taken in 1971, in which the buried feature briefly revealed itself as a cropmark, the faint but legible difference in plant growth that appears when soil disturbed by ancient digging causes crops above it to ripen at a slightly different rate from the surrounding field.

A ring-ditch is generally understood to be the remnant of a circular ditch, often all that survives of a burial mound or small enclosure after centuries of ploughing have levelled any raised element to nothing. They are found across Ireland and Britain, most frequently associated with Bronze Age burial practice, though the term covers a range of features and the true function of any individual example can be difficult to establish without excavation. This particular one, approximately ten metres in diameter, was recorded from the Cambridge University Collection of Aerial Photography archive, in a frame catalogued as BGG 83. It has not, as far as the available information shows, been investigated further on the ground.