Whether that somebody lived in the Bronze Age or was a farmer clearing a field a few centuries ago is a question that, so far, nobody has answered.

When the archaeologist McCaffrey examined the site in 1952, he recorded a roughly circular cairn, some 12.2 metres across and 2.4 metres high, bounded along its southern and western edges by a field wall. He catalogued it as a bowl-barrow, a type of low, rounded burial mound typically associated with prehistoric funerary practice, though his own description reads more straightforwardly as a heap of stones. The surrounding area was littered with what he noted as numerous dumps of field stones, the kind of accumulation that builds up over generations of agricultural clearance, and he was careful to acknowledge the possibility that this mound was simply more of the same. What gave him pause was the condition of the lower stones, which were grass- and moss-grown, suggesting they had not been disturbed in a very long time. The hilltop position also struck him as more deliberate than practical; farmers clearing land rarely drag the stones uphill. He concluded that excavation alone could settle the matter, and as far as the record shows, none has taken place. Today, no visible surface trace of the cairn survives at all, which means the mound that prompted his careful hedging has itself disappeared into the landscape.