It measures roughly six metres east to west and just over five metres north to south, rising no more than about eighty centimetres at its highest point. Covered in grass, ferns, and rushes, its flat top and slight eastern ridge are the only hints that this is not simply an accident of the terrain.

The mound was identified by Tom Coffey and entered into the Record of Monuments and Places in 1996 under the category of fulacht fiadh, a term for a type of prehistoric cooking site, typically associated with burnt stone mounds found near water sources and thought to date broadly to the Bronze Age. The classification has since been revised, and it is now recorded as a cairn, a stone or earth mound that can serve a range of functions from burial to boundary marking. Its setting adds another layer of interest: the cairn sits within what is described as a multiperiod field system, meaning the enclosing landscape itself carries traces of activity from more than one era. A second cairn lies roughly thirty-two metres to the south-south-east, suggesting this corner of Baur was not marked once but twice, and perhaps for reasons that were deliberate rather than incidental.