All the plateau area, 31 ha, was surrounded with earth rampart, while the slope of the hill was fortified by a scarp with a berm and a moat beneath.

The northern part of the hillfort was demolished by building of a palace of Ukrainian billionaire Yuri Kosiuk.

[6] The first scientific mention of the hillfort was made in 1848 by Ivan Fundukley, governor of Kyiv and notable historian.

He reports this legend in more details: in ancient times there was a town with a castle of a prince named Siriak.

[14] Discovered structures include dugouts and surface buildings with walls made of wood covered by clay.

[16] Other ceramic finds from the hillfort include spindle whorls of various forms, a sinker, and small balls and "loafs" which can be votive offerings.

[1][12] Another notable find is a bone plate with a carving of a panther or a leopard in the Scythian animal style.

[9] Agricultural works, which lasted on the hillfort over 200 years, did not ruin the fortifications, but damaged the archaeological horizon.

[20] In 1939, southwestern edge of the hillfort was damaged by a big landslide,[2] and in the late 1960s, by building of a dam on the nearby Vita stream.

Khotiv hillfort has the status of an archaeological monument since 1965, given by resolution of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR.

[6] In 2008, Khotiv village council transferred part of the land excluded from the monument to the possession of 5 building cooperatives for free.

They received northeastern part of the hillfort (including all the eastern rampart with the scarp) and adjacent slope with total area 13 ha.

After several years of splitting and resale, the land passed into the ownership of businessmen Victor Polishchuk, Liliya Rizva and Yuri Kosiuk.

Parts of the hillfort which are in the possession of the former two owners are still intact, while Kosiuk's land became the site of an active building works.

Initially its customer was unknown, and an information board on the building site announced construction of a new entrance to Feofaniya Park.

[4][29] As of 2016, the northern part of the hillfort (one of the richest in remains of ancient buildings and enclosed with the highest rampart),[1] including its fortification, and the landscape of adjacent areas was demolished.

As of 2015, all the eastern part of the plateau was marked as a land intended for building in the Public cadastre map of Ukraine.

In the development plan of Khotiv, southern side of this road (named Parkova Street) is also intended for building.

[6] Several big erosion zones in the southern part and a small ravine in the eastern end of the hillfort were buried with soil.

[33] In 2016, Institute of Archaeology of Ukrainian Academy of Sciences prepared one more documentation of the hillfort, where protected area includes almost 20 ha.

In the same year, new borders were approved by Khotiv village council[34][35] and marked by red concrete pillars.