What makes it quietly unusual is its entrance: a ramp two metres wide cuts in from the northeast, but there is no causeway to carry it across the surrounding fosse, the flat-bottomed ditch that encircles the whole structure. You could approach, in other words, but getting across required something, a plank, stepping stones, an arrangement that has long since vanished.

A ringfort, or rath, is an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period, typically consisting of a raised interior platform ringed by one or more earthen banks and ditches. This example is a reasonably substantial one: the raised interior platform measures roughly 27 metres east to west and nearly 24 metres north to south, standing between 1.3 and 1.4 metres above the surrounding ground. Beyond the fosse, which varies between four and six metres in width, there is an outer bank adding further definition to the site. The antiquarian T. J. Westropp noted it in 1915, describing it as a larger ring mound, and it was recorded again by Robinson in 1977. By 1996 it had been listed in the Record of Monuments and Places, though somewhat drily catalogued as an enclosure rather than by its more evocative classification. The Ordnance Survey had already been marking it on their six-inch maps since at least 1842, and it appears again on the 1920 edition. A second enclosure lies roughly 145 metres to the northeast, hinting that the hillside may once have carried more activity than now seems apparent.

The interior today is largely overgrown with rushes, and field boundaries run north to south on either side of the monument, pressing in fairly close. A forestry roadway passes to the north. The outer bank carries several gaps of varying widths around its circuit, though the surveyors note that at least one of these does not appear to be original to the structure, suggesting the monument has been modified or disturbed at some point since it was built.