The object is a font base, octagonal in form and modest in scale, measuring just 0.32 metres across and 0.2 metres thick, with a circular hole cut through its centre. One side is broken away, but the remainder is well preserved. What makes it quietly puzzling are two chisel-cut slots on its upper flat surface, each only two to three centimetres deep, whose purpose is not entirely clear. There may once have been more of them on the section that is now lost.

A baptismal font, in its usual ecclesiastical context, is the basin used for the sacrament of baptism, and what survives here is the base rather than the bowl itself. The octagonal shape has long associations with baptismal furniture across Christian tradition, the eight sides carrying symbolic resonance with ideas of renewal and resurrection. This particular example sits on level ground overlooking a gentle west-facing slope within the burial ground at Goldenfort, and though the notes do not specify a date of construction or the name of a church it once served, its presence in a burial ground points to a long history of religious use on the site. The monument has been subject to a preservation order since 1940, which speaks to the recognition of its significance even in the relative absence of documentary detail.