It is a modest thing: just the head and shaft of a plain cross, no more than four centimetres thick, with none of the elaborate interlace carving that makes early medieval Irish stonework so recognisable.

The cross was recorded by Harold Leask in his 1950 study of Glendalough's national monuments, where he noted it as a small, undecorated piece. Leask was one of Ireland's foremost architectural historians of the twentieth century, and his careful cataloguing of the site's stonework remains a reference point for the area. The Sevenchurches designation refers to the collection of early Christian ecclesiastical remains at Glendalough, a name rooted in the several ruined church buildings scattered across the valley floor and hillside. That a cross fragment this slight warranted inclusion in his survey at all speaks to how thoroughly the site has been documented; nothing was too minor to record.