This large (2m high) upright granite boulder is traditionally believed to commemorate the Battle of Homilton (1402), but is in fact a Bronze Age standing stone. About 10m to the west of the stone a cist was found in 1881. It contained an object recorded as a 'bronze sword handle', but which is more likely to have been a flat axe. This probably dates the grave to the Bronze Age. Such standing stones area a rare feature in the Northumberland landscape, and its association with a burial is important.