The burials here sit alongside a coastal midden, the accumulated refuse of shellfish, bone, and debris that builds up over generations of human occupation, preserved in the sand dunes at the north-eastern end of the island. What makes this site quietly unsettling is not the presence of the dead so much as their intermittent visibility: known to locals, lost to inspection, and then surfacing again decades later from the shifting dunes.

Local information recorded in the mid-1970s described a number of burials on the western edge of the midden. When archaeologists visited in September 1984, they found no visible surface traces at all. The sand had closed over whatever was there. Then, in June 2021, a report of exposed human bone brought investigators back to the island. This time they found dispersed bones lying on the ground surface, associated with a scatter of stones roughly one metre long and eighty centimetres wide, set a little inland from the south-eastern end of the midden. At the eastern end of this scatter sat one particularly distinctive stone, small but upright in character, which had the appearance of a possible headstone. The bones were removed for analysis. Whether the burials relate to the prehistoric activity suggested by the midden, or to a later period of use on the island, remains an open question.