That layering of periods, one era of occupation folded inside another, gives the site an quietly unusual character. The house itself is hard to read on the ground; its remains are described as ill defined, which is itself telling. This is not a ruin that announces itself.

A 1976 survey identified three possible house sites within the enclosure, one near the centre and two toward the southern sector. Alongside these, a series of low dividing walls cuts across the interior, creating small enclosed areas whose purpose is not entirely clear. They appear to post-date 1700, and the current thinking is that they may be the result of landscaping or quarrying activity during the 19th century rather than anything more domestic. The house itself is most likely 19th-century in date, placing it in a period when marginal and already-ancient sites were sometimes reoccupied or disturbed by agricultural and extractive work. What is harder to untangle is whether the people responsible for those walls were aware they were working inside something much older, or simply saw a convenient arrangement of existing stone.