Coffin-resting stones are exactly what the name suggests: flat stones placed at intervals along funeral routes so that bearers could set down a coffin and rest during the long carry to a burial ground. What makes this particular site quietly arresting is the pairing. One stone was used for adults; the smaller one, just eighty centimetres away, was used for children.

The larger of the two is a natural limestone block, 1.7 metres long and roughly a metre wide, aligned east to west, its surface mostly flat with a slight westward slope. The smaller stone is sandstone, considerably more modest in size at 64 by 54 centimetres, aligned northeast to southwest, with a noticeably level surface and a clean straight edge to the northwest. Neither carries any carving. They appear to be undisturbed, sitting as they were left, in a rough and overgrown area that now lies close to a county council quarry. The proximity of the quarry, separated from the stones by only a field boundary and about eight metres of ground, gives the site an incongruous quality: ancient ritual on one side of a wall, industrial extraction on the other.

Inchicronan Abbey, to which the old pathway leads, provides the broader context. Funeral processions moving towards the abbey grounds would have made use of stopping points like these along the route, and the existence of a dedicated smaller stone suggests the community once needed it with some regularity. Finding the stones today means following the path indicated on the Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map and looking into the rough ground to the east, where both stones remain in place among the vegetation.