That hollow, roughly fifteen centimetres across and worn down to a depth of seven centimetres, is the kind of detail that rewards a second look. It speaks to repeated, deliberate contact, hands or knees returning to the same spot over many generations.

The stone is what is known as a penitential station, a fixed point in a pattern of devotional movement where pilgrims would pray and perform rounds, circuits made on foot around a sacred site as an act of penance or petition. A ringbarrow is a low, circular burial mound defined by a surrounding ditch, the fosse, and the fact that this stone sits within that ditch places it in a landscape already layered with pre-Christian significance. Whether the stone's location within the monument was always deliberate, or whether a much older feature was gradually absorbed into later folk practice, is not recorded. What is recorded, by Bowman in 1934, is that rounds were still being paid at the stone at that time, and that locally it was remembered as carrying certain healing powers. By the time more recent enquiries were made, pilgrims had stopped coming entirely.