It is not especially dramatic to look at, but that modesty is partly the point. A subcircular cairn, roughly 7.5 metres east to west and 6.4 metres north to south, rising to just 1.2 metres at its highest, it sits in a landscape that has swallowed far larger things over the centuries. The bog itself is the context: a thick, wet accumulation of peat that preserves what it covers and obscures almost everything else.

A cairn of this type is broadly understood as a prehistoric stone mound, raised as a burial monument or territorial marker during the Bronze Age or earlier. What makes this one slightly puzzling is the evidence of disturbance at its centre. Loose stones to the east appear to have been pulled away from the interior, leaving a hollow, with large stone slabs and a scatter of haphazardly arranged stones visible in the depression. Whether this represents ancient robbing, a more recent rummage, or simply the long slow collapse of whatever internal structure once existed, is not recorded. The mound protrudes above the surrounding bog rather than being submerged by it, which suggests either that its stone core has resisted compression or that the peat in this spot never fully engulfed it. An Ordnance Survey triangulation pillar sits approximately 170 metres to the east-northeast, a reminder that even into the modern period people have found reasons to mark this particular summit.