A cairn of this type is essentially a mound of heaped stones, typically raised over a prehistoric burial, and this one on Taur More originally measured fifteen metres in diameter and stood nearly two metres high. What makes it quietly notable is not what remains but what was taken away. By the time the antiquarian Bowman recorded it in 1934, a large part of the stone had already been carried off by treasure hunters, leaving the mound roughly four feet high and around ten yards across. The plundering was concentrated on the north-northwest side, and the asymmetry is still visible in the present profile of the mound.

The cairn does not appear on the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of either 1842 or 1904, which suggests it was either overlooked by surveyors or not considered significant enough for inclusion at the time. Those maps were extraordinarily thorough, so the omission is at least a little curious. Bowman's 1934 account gives the clearest historical snapshot: a monument already diminished by the time anyone thought to write it down properly. On top of the surviving mound, a small modern cairn, three metres across and less than a metre high, has been added by later visitors, a common enough informal practice on elevated ground. A trigonometrical station on the northeast side marks the point's use in more recent survey work, giving the hill a secondary layer of functional history layered over the prehistoric one.