The second edition does mark an area of outcrop at roughly the same spot, which raises the quiet possibility that surveyors saw rock and recorded geology rather than archaeology. Whether that reflects a genuine ambiguity about the stone's origins or simply an oversight is hard to say now.

The stone itself is composed of sandstone with quartz inclusions, stands 1.1 metres high, and measures approximately 1.85 metres by 0.4 to 0.53 metres. It has a rounded profile with inclining sides, and has split along its natural bedding plane, which gives the northeast and southwest faces a relatively flat appearance. It is oriented northwest to southeast, aligned with the ridge on whose northeastern flank it sits, in what is now undulating reclaimed pastureland. A tradition recorded by Stout in 1984 connects this possible standing stone to a kerbed mound situated roughly 300 metres to the southeast. A kerbed mound is a burial or ceremonial earthwork edged with a ring of stones at its base, a form associated broadly with prehistoric funerary practice. If that association is genuine, the two monuments may once have formed part of a larger prehistoric landscape, though the relationship between them remains a matter of local tradition rather than confirmed excavation.