The qualification matters. It is recorded as a possible cross-base, positioned towards the south-east corner of the graveyard, and that uncertainty is part of what makes it worth noting. Cross-bases, the socketed or shaped stones into which the shaft of a free-standing cross was set, are often the last trace of monuments that have otherwise vanished entirely, their upper sections lost to collapse, reuse, or simple time.

The graveyard itself, recorded separately as a burial ground of its own archaeological significance, occupies level ground with the river valley opening out below it. Granite is the local material here, a hard-wearing stone that resists weathering better than limestone but can also be harder to work into fine detail, which sometimes makes identification of dressed stonework more difficult. Whether this particular block was ever part of a cross, or served some other purpose, or arrived here incidentally, remains an open question.