What survives is largely invisible to the casual eye, detectable now only as a cropmark, the kind of ghostly outline that appears in aerial photographs when the buried ditch of a fosse causes the soil above it to retain moisture differently, producing a faint discolouration in the crops growing overhead.

The monument was recorded on the Ordnance Survey six-inch map of 1842 as a hachured oval-shaped enclosure, measuring approximately twenty metres on its north-west to south-east axis and around eighteen metres across the other way, sitting on the edge of a scarp that drops away to the south-east. An aerial photograph later confirmed the circular plan through a cropmark showing the line of the fosse and a faint suggestion of the external bank that would once have surrounded it. By the time the site was thoroughly assessed, it had been levelled entirely. The ground in the area shows evidence of quarrying, including a rock outcrop that appears to have been worked, and a large quarry lies to the east. Whether the monument was destroyed incidentally in the course of agricultural and extractive activity, or more deliberately cleared, is not recorded, but the result is the same: a prehistoric burial site that existed on maps and in the landscape for well over a century is now present only as a mark in the soil, readable only from the air.