What surfaced from the vegetation there, fragments of a disc quern, a wooden peg, an iron object, and a piece of animal bone, was modest enough in itself, yet together these objects point towards something deliberate: human settlement on an artificial or heavily modified island. That kind of structure is known as a crannog, a platform of timber, stone, and peat built out into a lake, often in the early medieval period, and used as a dwelling that combined the practical advantages of water-based defence with access to fishing and the surrounding land.

The disc quern fragments are particularly telling. A quern is a hand-operated millstone used for grinding grain, and the presence of both the upper and lower sections suggests the island was a place of domestic work, not merely a temporary refuge. The wooden peg and iron object, though unspecified in detail, add to a picture of ordinary habitation, the kind of small material evidence that tends to survive precisely because it was left behind rather than carried away. Animal bone rounds out the picture; people here kept or slaughtered livestock, or processed meat as part of daily life. None of this is dramatic, but that is rather the point: the accumulated ordinariness of it is what makes the site compelling. No formal excavation appears to have been carried out, and the island had not been visited at the time it was recorded, meaning that what lies beneath the overgrowth remains largely unknown.