The structure, roughly six metres east to west and four metres north to south, is slight enough that a casual walker might take it for a natural irregularity in the ground. The fact that it occupies the interior of a ringfort, an enclosed farmstead of the early medieval period typically defined by a circular bank and ditch, suggests a layered history of occupation at this particular spot, one settlement embedded within another.

The shallow valley that the site overlooks would have made it a practical location, sheltered from the worst of the mountain weather while still commanding a view of the surrounding land. Rectangular hut sites of this kind are often associated with seasonal or agricultural use, sometimes later in date than the ringforts they adjoin or occupy. Whether the structure here was built in deliberate relation to the ringfort, or simply raised within its remains long after the original enclosure had fallen out of use, is not clear from what survives at ground level. The traces are modest, but the combination of the two features in a single spot is the detail that gives the site its particular interest.