The monument includes the buried remains of a Neolithic henge situated some 2km south of the River Stour and to the north of dwellings at Boxted Cross. The henge is no longer visible on the ground, although its infilled ditches and central pit-like features can be seen from the air as crop marks. These crop marks have been recorded on numerous aerial photographs, some dating back to the 1950. First identified as a henge on morphological grounds in 1975, the monument has since been targeted by aerial survey and showed up particularly well in June 1980 and August 1983 when photographed by the Air Photo Unit of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England and local aerial photographer Mrs Ida McMaster. The henge is defined by a broad circular, penannular ditch, infilled and buried, with two opposing entrances to the north and south. The external diameter of the ditches enclosure is some 40m; the ditch itself is 5m wide, giving an internal diameter of some 30m. The henge would originally have had an external bank, and although this has long since been reduced by ploughing, a 5m wide margin is included in the scheduling in order to protect surviving archaeological traces. Several large pit-like features are clearly visible as crop marks within the area delimited by the ditch and bank, and these are considered to represent features related to the ritual use of the enclosure. <1>