Most ringforts, the circular farmstead enclosures built predominantly during the early medieval period from roughly the fifth to the twelfth centuries, consist of a single bank and ditch. The presence of a second, outer bank here, known as a bivallate arrangement, is less common and is generally taken to indicate either higher social status or a greater concern for defence on the part of whoever once lived within.

The site is roughly circular, measuring 36 metres east to west and 33 metres north to south. Both the inner and outer earthen banks survive to only around 0.4 metres in height, heavily worn by time, root activity, and the general encroachment of woodland. Between them, a fosse, the ditch that would originally have separated the two banks, has silted up over the years to form an almost flat platform, so that what was once a deliberate obstacle now reads more like a level terrace. Both banks retain traces of an original entrance to the north, measuring roughly 3 and 4 metres wide respectively. The name Priest's Wood, though it belongs to the surrounding woodland rather than the monument itself, carries the kind of quiet local resonance that often attaches to places long removed from ordinary use.