The hill fort is built on a solitary hillock. A small river, non-perennial in nature, called the Suwarnarekha(meaning golden line) flows closer. The rock formations in the fort hill and in the Gwalior hill ranges is consist of Yellowish brown sandstone, overlain by volcanic rock or basalt. The rock formation of hill fort though a horizontally placed strata, forms almost a perpendicular precipice. The fort hill (342 feet (104 m) at the highest point) has a length of about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) and an average width of about 300 yards (270 m).
