The hill offers excellent defensive slopes on all sides, which have been supplemented by the double ditch and rampart earthworks.

A Neolithic settlement site was discovered during the excavation in the 1950s, being of a section of the south-east rampart of the hillfort.

[2] Trees planted in the 1960s were removed from 2002 and the area was allowed to revert to the natural chalk downland.

Access to the site is difficult as it is on, or near, Ministry of Defence land, and there are many tank tracks and occasional artillery firing in the area.

There are public footpaths and bridleways in the area, however the surrounding land is managed by the MOD and access to the hillfort may be restricted at times.