Roughly eight metres north to south and six metres east to west, and rising about a metre above the surrounding ground, it appears from the surface to consist of loose stone beneath its grassy skin. Whether it was raised deliberately as a cairn, a form of stone mound typically associated with burial or commemoration, or whether it accumulated more incidentally, is not immediately clear. What is certain is that the outcrop itself commands open views in every direction, with the southward prospect being particularly wide.

The mound sits on the western side of a hut site and forms part of a wider cluster of related archaeological features in the immediate area. Michael Connolly documented it during a survey of the Lee Valley area carried out in 1996 and 1997, noting its position within this broader complex. The limestone reef on which it stands is the kind of natural feature that would have made a site conspicuous and accessible across centuries, and its incorporation into what seems to be a settlement grouping suggests a landscape that was organised and used with some deliberateness, even if the precise function of the mound itself remains open.