Four cairns are shown on the 1869 1:2500 scale Ordnance Survey map in this vicinity but this is one of two which still survive today. This example is a ditchless bowl barrow with a diameter of 16.0 metres and a minimum height of 0.2 metres. It has been spread by ploughing and appears to be an earth mound rather than a stone cairn.


Kermode noted that an urn was found in one of the four cairns marked by the Ordnance Survey here. This may well be the same urn as was reported to B.R.S. Megaw in 1950 by the finder, who related that they had found and reburied the urn in 1916 (see PRN 1720.00).