A rectangular hollow, barely half a metre deep and not much wider, has its sides lined with upright stone slabs in the manner of a cist, the term archaeologists use for a box-like stone-lined grave or container typically associated with prehistoric burial. But whether that is what this actually is remains genuinely open. No one has settled the question.

The confusion surrounding the site has a longer history. An earlier recorder, working for the Office of Public Works, noted a caher and a souterrain at this location. A caher is a stone-walled circular fort, and a souterrain is an underground stone-lined passage, often associated with early medieval settlement. It now appears he was describing a different monument entirely, a stone fort that sits roughly 210 metres to the south-west. What was left behind at the Baslickane location, once that misidentification was unpicked, is something smaller and harder to classify: the slab-lined depression, and alongside it to the west, a loose arrangement of earth-embedded boulders and a low, poorly defined mound about five metres across and half a metre high. The mound is slight enough that it might easily be passed over. The relationship between the hollow, the boulders, and the mound is not understood, and the site has not yielded the kind of evidence that would allow a confident interpretation.