The ground is ordinary coastal pasture, the view out to sea is uninterrupted, and there is nothing to suggest that this particular patch of hillside was once a place where people ate, discarded, and accumulated the evidence of their daily lives over an extended period. What was recorded here is a kitchen midden, the term archaeologists use for a prehistoric refuse heap composed of shell, bone, ash, and other domestic debris. These deposits are far more than ancient rubbish; they are often the most detailed record we have of how coastal communities fed themselves, what species they harvested from the sea and shoreline, and how those patterns shifted over time.

The site was recorded by Mary Timoney in 1989, passed on as a personal communication rather than a formal excavation report, which places it in that category of local archaeological knowledge that depends on individual observers noticing what others might walk past without a second thought. The midden sat on a north-north-easterly facing slope overlooking the Atlantic, in what is now agricultural land. By the time the record was formalised, no physical remains were visible at ground level. Whether the deposit was destroyed, buried more deeply by later activity, or simply exhausted by erosion and agricultural disturbance is not recorded.