Cairns of this kind are essentially deliberate mounds of stone, raised by human hands in prehistory, though their precise function, whether funerary, territorial, or ceremonial, is not always recoverable. What makes this one quietly interesting is the mix of materials: both limestone and sandstone have been used, stones of assorted sizes heaped into a roughly oval form measuring 3.8 metres on its northwest to southeast axis and 3 metres across, standing about 0.8 metres high.

The cairn does not sit alone. Within a very short distance, to the west and east respectively, lie two hut sites, the remains of ancient enclosures or shelters. The proximity is suggestive of a small settlement cluster, a group of structures that once made up some kind of occupied place on this hillside. The site looks south towards Mangerton Mountain, a view that would have been no less present to whoever gathered these stones. Documentation of the site draws on fieldwork by O'Donnell in 2001 and 2003, which recorded the cairn and its immediate neighbours in this cluster on the ridge.