It measures roughly 24.6 metres on its longer axis and 16.6 metres across, which makes it a substantial presence in the landscape, and yet the question of what exactly it represents remains open. The foundations of an old field wall encircle it, adding a layer of later human activity to whatever story lies underneath.

The most cautious assessment is that this may be a field-clearance cairn, a category of monument that is easily overlooked precisely because it can look like nothing more than agricultural tidying. Farmers clearing ground of stones would pile debris into a single heap, sometimes over generations, sometimes over centuries, creating mounds that can be mistaken for burial cairns or ancient monuments without necessarily being either. The presence of large boulders alongside smaller loose material does complicate that reading slightly, since deliberate prehistoric construction sometimes mixed materials in exactly this way. Without excavation, the ambiguity remains, and the field wall foundations enclosing it suggest that at some point the mound was treated as a fixed feature of the landscape, worth demarcating rather than simply removing.