Roughly fourteen metres across and scattered with loose stones at its surface, it reads as deliberate, the kind of shape that does not happen by accident in a landscape that has otherwise swallowed most of what people once left behind.

A cairn, in its simplest form, is a mound of stones raised over a burial or used as a territorial or ritual marker, often dating to the Bronze Age or earlier. What sits on the slopes of Carrig Mountain fits that general description, though it has not been formally classified, which places it in a category of monuments that are recognised as significant but not yet fully understood or excavated. Adding a further layer of interest, a second unclassified cairn lies approximately ninety-five metres to the north-east, suggesting that whatever drew people to this part of the mountain, it drew them more than once. Two such features in proximity on the same hillside is not a coincidence easily brushed aside, even if the relationship between them remains unclear.