Originally laid flat over a burial in the medieval manner, the upper portion of this tapering sandstone slab now stands upright among the headstones, reused as one. The greater part of it remains buried, so what you see is essentially the top of something much larger, repurposed rather than discarded, which gives it an odd double existence: old grave marker functioning as new one.

The visible section measures roughly 45 centimetres above ground and just under half a metre across at its widest point. What makes it worth pausing over is the carving. The face of the slab carries a deeply incised cross-head of lozenge, or diamond, shape, with four arms and fleur-de-lys terminals, the stylised three-petalled lily form borrowed from heraldry and used widely in medieval ecclesiastical decoration. The upper edge has been chamfered, meaning cut away at an angle to produce a bevelled finish, a detail that suggests the original slab was made with some care. The sandstone itself is the local material, the same used in the construction of the medieval church of Burnchurch with which this graveyard is directly associated. That church has its own considerable history; the graveyard it generated continued to absorb the dead, and the dead's memorials, long after the original ecclesiastical community that created it had passed.