It never appeared on any edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, and it was absent from the Sites and Monuments Record when that inventory was compiled in 1989. Only when the Record of Monuments and Places was drawn up in 1995 did it receive any formal recognition, classified simply as a hut site.

What a fieldworker found there in 1991 was a booley hut, a type of seasonal shelter used during the practice of booleying, the transhumance tradition in which people moved their cattle to upland summer pastures and lived temporarily alongside them. The structure was modest even by those standards: a square building with an internal diameter of just 2.20 metres, constructed with gabled stone walls, and with its entrance placed at the south-west corner, angled away from the prevailing weather. It sat on a slight south-south-west-facing slope on high ground to the north-east of a broad valley, with good to excellent views in all directions, the kind of elevated position that would have made practical sense for anyone keeping watch over grazing animals across an open landscape. By the time the site was recorded, and certainly by now, no upstanding remains are visible above ground. The walls that a fieldworker could still describe in 1991 have since disappeared into the hillside.