The foundations measure just 3.8 metres by 2.4 metres, the walls surviving to a height of roughly half a metre and a thickness of about 70 centimetres. Two upright slabs still mark the entrance at the north-west, and the interior is now infilled with rubble, but the outline of the structure is legible enough to suggest a simple, functional shelter, built without great ambition from whatever rough material was to hand.

What makes the location quietly arresting is its proximity to something older and more deliberate. About 50 metres to the south lies a separate example of rock art, the kind of abstract carved motif, typically cup marks or cup-and-ring designs, that appears across Atlantic Europe in the Neolithic and Bronze Age periods. Whether the person or people who used this small hut were aware of the carved stone as something meaningful, or whether it was simply a feature of a familiar landscape, cannot be said. The hut itself has not been closely dated, and its rough construction tells us relatively little about when it was built or for how long it was used. It may belong to any number of periods in which people moved through or worked this boggy upland ground.