The upper right corner has been broken away, taking with it whatever words once opened the text, and what remains is fragmentary: enough to catch a name, a date, a father's name, but not quite enough to close the story cleanly. That incompleteness is part of what makes it worth attention.

The slab is modest in its dimensions, roughly 58 centimetres above ground and 46 centimetres wide, set into the earth at an angle that suggests it has always stood rather than lain flat. Around its surviving text runs a thin plain border, and the lettering is raised rather than incised, a technique that gives the script a slight relief against the stone face. What can still be read identifies the person commemorated as a daughter of one Stephen Moore, her own first name partly lost to the damaged corner, though the letters BAR and RA survive, suggesting Barbara or a variant spelling. She died, the inscription records, on the 10th of May, in the year 1676, phrased in the period manner as "parted this life," with Anno Domini given in full. The Moore family name is otherwise unglossed by the surviving text, and the broken upper corner has erased whatever title, age, or opening formula the carver placed there.