This site consists of a block of limestone enclosed by a metal railed fence. It is beside the Ferrybridge Road, on the S side opposite Darkfield Lane, and recently (2014) approached by new housing. The stone is the socket of a roadside marker, and the four sides have two or three bays of blank arcading, simply carved - as it now seems after centuries of weathering - on two levels and with minimal indication of the features of capital and base in the arcade.

The shaft base is a listed Ancient Monument (no. 1011848).

The conditions for the stone have deteriorated in the 14 years between visits. When seen in 2001, the socket and the surrounding area within the railings were newly gravelled and the stone was seen to be set on a plinth, but in 2015, goosegrass and ivy are growing up around it, and the nearby sycamore tree has grown slightly closer to the stone; the socket contains wet old leaves. Despite these changes, the arcades on the sides seem much the same. It would be a challenge to Health and Safety for someone to get over and inside the railings to tidy up; perhaps something could be done with weedkiller.

The image of the Museum display (2014) uses a modern photograph of the roadside position of the base; the antiquarian drawing on the left shows a shaft which did not belong to this base. For details of this and other, perhaps related, pieces of shaft, see the report for Pontefract Museum, Salter Row.

This record gives other background sources and information.

The boundary marker was commemorated in the name 'Stump Cross Lane', running SSE towards Bondgate (A645), but neither of the new roads, E or W of the stone, continue this name.