It is the kind of feature that most people would walk past without a second thought, assuming it was simply the result of a farmer clearing the land, which is precisely what a clearance cairn is: stones gathered and piled to make a field workable. What makes this one quietly interesting is the question of whether that is really all it is.

At some point it was recorded as a fulacht fia, a type of prehistoric cooking site typically identified by a horseshoe-shaped mound of fire-cracked stone and charcoal, usually found close to a water source. The proximity of the stream to the north fits that pattern well enough to have caught someone's attention. However, when Gannon noted it in 1972, no description was provided, leaving the identification somewhere between a possibility and an unanswered question. Adding to the ambiguity, there is a spoil mound at the junction of two drainage ditches nearby, a detail that hints at land improvement work and complicates any straightforward reading of the site. Material from one feature could easily have been moved or mixed with another over decades of agricultural activity, making it genuinely difficult to separate prehistoric deposit from farm clearance.