Archaeologically monitored topsoil-stripping in 2003 revealed what is known as a fulacht fia, the remains of an ancient outdoor cooking place, typically consisting of a water-filled trough, a hearth for heating stones, and a mound of fire-cracked rock and ash left over from repeated use. What made this particular example unusual was the absence of that burnt mound, the characteristic heap of scorched and shattered stone that normally survives at such sites and is often the only visible sign that a fulacht fia exists at all.

What the excavation did uncover, recorded under licence 03E1821, was a timber-lined trough measuring roughly 1.9 metres in length, 1.65 metres wide, and 0.6 metres deep, oriented roughly north-east to south-west. Six timbers lay at its base, and wattle, a woven lattice of thin branches, lined the eastern and southern edges of the cut, suggesting some care was taken to stabilise the structure. Four shallow pits sat to the north of the trough, their function unclear. To the west, archaeologists uncovered traces of what may have been an enclosure, hinting that the cooking feature was not an isolated installation but part of a broader, possibly domestic or communal arrangement. The survival of organic material such as timber and wattle is relatively rare, since waterlogged conditions are needed to preserve wood over millennia, making the structural detail here more informative than many comparable finds.