Rising just over a metre and a quarter from the ground, it is a red sandstone conglomerate, a rock type formed from compressed sedimentary fragments, rectangular in plan and orientated NNW-SSE. The upper portion of its north-east face has spalled, meaning flakes of the stone's surface have broken away, leaving a slight ledge running across that side. It is a small detail, but it gives the stone a faintly architectural quality, as though something was once intended there.

The stone sits on a gentle south-west-facing slope in undulating upland terrain, the kind of ground that rolls and dips without ever resolving into anything dramatic. A field boundary that once ran north to south immediately east of it has since been cleared and the land reclaimed, which means the stone now stands in a slightly different relationship to its surroundings than it once did. There are no visible packing stones around the base, the usual evidence of deliberate placement, and the ground around it has been churned into a hollow by cattle over the years. A grassy hummock sits at the south-east end of the base and a low one runs along the east side. Whether the stone was raised in prehistory as a territorial marker, a ceremonial point, or something else entirely, the record does not say, and the stone itself offers no obvious answer.