The site takes advantage of the river’s course, which flows about 20 to 50 metres away, with steep 15-metre slopes providing natural defences to the north, east and west. The ringwork itself is roughly circular, measuring approximately 28 metres from northwest to southeast and just under 24 metres from northeast to southwest, its surface now covered in grass and scrub vegetation.

The defensive earthworks remain clearly visible, particularly on the northwestern side where an earthen bank rises 1.5 metres from the interior and an impressive 3.5 metres from the exterior. This bank, about 10 metres wide, is accompanied by a flat-bottomed ditch or fosse that measures 8.5 metres across at the top, narrowing to 2.5 metres at its base, with a depth of 1.5 metres. Around the rest of the perimeter, where the natural topography provides protection, a scarp between 3.6 and 4.5 metres high defines the edge, with a narrow berm or ledge, roughly 1 to 3 metres wide, at its base before the ground drops away steeply. Curiously, no entrance to the enclosure is visible today.

Just 100 metres to the south, across the River Sow, stands Castlesow motte, suggesting this area held particular strategic importance in medieval times. The proximity of these two fortifications hints at a complex defensive landscape, perhaps representing different phases of occupation or complementary elements of a larger defensive system controlling this stretch of the river valley.