It is only when you look more carefully that the logic of the arrangement becomes apparent: a roughly circular kerb, originally around nine metres across, formed by closely spaced upright boulders, and at its centre a low box-like structure of upright slabs with no capstone remaining. This is a kerbed cairn, a type of prehistoric funerary monument in which a mound of stone or earth covering a burial is contained within a defining ring of kerbstones. The whole interior, and a metre or two beyond the outer edge, is scattered with loose cairn material, giving the ground a slightly raised, lumpy profile that distinguishes it from the surrounding field.

The site was described in 1934 by Price, who recorded a circle of stones thirty feet in diameter with a central chamber of nine stones enclosing a space roughly four feet square. Price noted that the pillar-stones visible to the north-north-west, around 160 yards away, were considerably larger than anything in the cairn, and that the monument had the appearance of a very much ruined cairn and burial cist. A cist is simply a stone-lined grave, typically a small rectangular box formed from upright slabs and sealed with a covering stone; here, the capstone is gone entirely. By the time of more recent examination, the kerb had been largely obscured, with only seven contiguous orthostats still visible on the north-north-west side, the remainder hidden beneath encroaching vegetation. The possible megalithic tomb 130 metres to the north-north-west adds further weight to the idea that this patch of high ground held some significance across prehistory, though both monuments remain tentatively classified.

The cairn sits within a small coniferous plantation, and the thorn growth covering much of the monument means that what is visible today is considerably less than what Price recorded. The central cist, set about 2.5 metres in from the inner face of the surviving kerbstones, is still discernible as a low rectangular arrangement of uprights, each roughly half a metre in height. The surrounding high ground offers wide views in all directions, a quality shared by many prehistoric monuments of this type, whether that proximity to open sky was practical, ceremonial, or simply a matter of preference that no longer makes itself legible to us.