At the centre of it was a subrectangular hut, its interior measuring roughly 2.1 metres east to west and 1.8 metres north to south, defined by a rough stone wall about a metre wide and sixty centimetres high, with more carefully laid stonework on the inner face. Close by sat two possible hut platforms, one edged with small boulders and spanning about five metres across, and a natural cleft in the rock that had been roughly lined with boulders, suggesting it was pressed into use as a kind of rudimentary shelter or storage space. Within ten metres of the huts, three small clearance cairns, the low piles of stone that accumulate when someone laboriously picks a field clear for cultivation or grazing, completed a picture of a modest, working upland settlement.

When archaeologists visited the site in 1990, these features were still legible in the landscape, a quiet arrangement of stone that spoke to the practicalities of marginal hill farming at some unspecified point in the past. In the years that followed, the area was planted with commercial forestry. A return visit in 2012 found that the hut, the platforms, and the clearance cairns had all disappeared from view above ground, and are considered likely to have been at least partially destroyed by the planting activity. What had survived for centuries in open pasture was effectively erased within a generation, absorbed beneath the root systems and heavy machinery of a forestry operation. The rock cleft, being a natural feature, may fare slightly better, but the coherent ensemble of the site, the thing that gave it its meaning as a place where people once worked and sheltered, is gone.