It is broken cleanly into two pieces, the break running horizontally somewhere below the midpoint, yet enough survives to make out a carefully composed design: a four-armed floriated cross, meaning a cross whose arms end in leaf-like or flower-like forms, with a circle at the centre of the cross-head. Below the head, a small knop, a rounded decorative boss, marks the shaft before it tapers to a fleur-de-lys at the base. Along the right-hand edge of the upper surface runs an inscription in Lombardic script, the rounded, formal lettering commonly used in medieval monumental work. The slab is sizeable, roughly a metre long in its upper portion alone and tapering from just over half a metre wide at the top to less than forty centimetres at the base, with chamfered, that is bevelled, edges that give it a finished, considered quality.

The slab belongs stylistically to the thirteenth or fourteenth century, placing it in the later medieval period when the church of Newtown Earley was an active parish. It came to light not through excavation in any formal sense but during a clean-up of the associated graveyard between 1985 and 1987, when a large number of graveslabs were uncovered together. The find was documented by R. Harte, whose survey of the tombstones at Newtown Earley was published in the Old Kilkenny Review in 1987. The slabs, rather than being returned to the ground or set upright, were gathered into the interior of the church itself, where they remain. That arrangement, utilitarian in origin, has the incidental effect of concentrating several centuries of funerary stonework in one small roofless space.