The earthwork appears on the 1837 Ordnance Survey map as a circular mound, roughly 22 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west, with a triangulation point marking its 419-foot summit. Just 70 metres to the northeast, St. Nicholas church and its graveyard have kept watch over this ancient fortification for centuries, whilst a curving field boundary to the west still respects the monument’s original footprint.

The motte itself is a steep-sided, flat-topped mound of earth and stone, now densely covered with trees and vegetation. Where the plant cover has worn away on the north, east and south sides, exposed soil reveals numerous stones that may have once formed part of a revetment system. Three rough terraces visible on the northern and eastern edges could be the result of centuries of slippage, though the large stones here appear deliberately arranged in rows. Traces of a defensive ditch, or fosse, can still be detected running from the west through north-northwest, though a modern field fence now obscures its outer edge.

Archaeological surveys from 1980 onwards have found no evidence of an associated bailey, the fortified courtyard typically attached to motte castles. The flat summit shows no obvious features beneath its thick overgrowth, whilst the area to the east appears disturbed, scattered with small depressions, earth mounds and large boulders that might be bedrock outcroppings. An old field bank runs east to west just beyond the mound’s southern base, another reminder of how this imposing Norman earthwork has shaped the landscape around it for nearly a millennium.