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The plaque reads:

Learmont Drysdale
composer
1866 – 1909

For a short biography of Drysdale see Link

A plastic box, just visible at the base of the cairn, contains a Visitors’ Book. It explains that the cairn was dedicated in a ceremony held on 1st September 1937, attended by about 60 people. The plaque was unveiled by Sir Dan Godfrey, conductor of Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra. Also attending was the composer’s sister Janey Drysdale, who lived at the nearby cottage of the Hennel. She died in 1949, aged 87, following a fire at the cottage, which is now a roofless ruin.

The cairn was restored in the summer of 2008 by several people from Innerleithen, and the Visitors’ Book begun on 1st January 2009. Walter Baxter’s picture NT3331 : Memorial Cairn on heather moorland near Hannel Bog shows the cairn in 2006 before it was rebuilt.