It is an ordinary-looking thing at first glance, swallowed by the working landscape of the peninsula. Look more closely and the carving resolves: a Latin cross with expanded terminals, the ends of each arm flared outward, cut into the same face that would once have been most visible to anyone approaching along the valley.

The stone stands 2.65 metres high, roughly a metre wide and 0.6 metres thick, oriented on a north-east to south-west axis, positioned immediately north of the natural gap in the coastal mountain ridge through which the Emlagh river makes its way towards Castlemaine Harbour. That placement, on a hilltop at a significant topographical threshold, is characteristic of how prehistoric communities used standing stones to mark or claim a landscape. The carved cross belongs to a different era entirely, most likely the early medieval period, when existing prehistoric monuments across Ireland were sometimes re-inscribed with Christian symbols, appropriating their prominence rather than removing them. A second standing stone was once recorded roughly 50 metres to the west-north-west, noted on the second edition of the Ordnance Survey map, but it has since disappeared entirely from the ground.