The nickname alone is enough to make you pause. It carries the quiet weight of a graveside association, though nothing in the record confirms a burial here, and the stone almost certainly predates Christian practice by a considerable margin. Standing just over a metre tall and modest in width, it sits on a south-south-west-facing slope near the crest of a hill, oriented along a north-west to south-east axis, a subrectangular block planted in wet ground with no obvious companion stones nearby.

What makes it particularly curious is its absence from the Ordnance Survey six-inch maps of both 1842 and 1904. Those surveys were meticulous by the standards of their time, and a standing stone of reasonable size on a hillside would normally have been noted. Whether it was genuinely overlooked, considered too minor to record, or simply difficult to reach in the surrounding bog is unclear. Standing stones of this kind are prehistoric in origin, erected for purposes that remain debated, ranging from territorial markers to ritual or astronomical alignments. This one, measuring roughly 45 centimetres across and 28 centimetres deep at the base, is not especially large, but it has clearly been known to local people for long enough to acquire its own name, passed down through generations with no surviving explanation of why.