A ringfort, or rath, was a roughly circular enclosed settlement, typically of early medieval date, defined by one or more earthen banks and ditches. This one has been so thoroughly reduced by centuries of agriculture and weathering that most visitors walking across the hilltop would have no idea they were standing inside one.

What survives amounts to a sub-circular area of around forty metres north to south and forty-five metres east to west. The enclosing bank, once the defining feature of the site, now stands no higher than thirty centimetres and has been largely worn down to a scarp, a low stepped edge in the ground rather than a proper bank. An external fosse, the ditch that would originally have run around the outside, is still faintly legible, but only along a short arc from the west-northwest to the northeast, and even there it measures little more than a metre wide and thirty-five centimetres deep. Inside the enclosure the ground rises slightly towards the centre, and faint traces of cultivation ridges suggest the interior was ploughed at some point, which will have contributed to the monument's gradual disappearance. A second ringfort lies about 160 metres to the northwest, hinting that this hillside was once a more populated landscape than it appears today.