It does not look like much at first glance, but the blackened soil still visible along its southern arc gives it away. This is where charcoal was made, probably over an open wood pile, the ground itself retaining the chemical memory of repeated burning.

The platform measures roughly twelve metres on its north-east to south-west axis and six and a half metres across. Rather than simply being cleared, it was deliberately shaped into the hillside: cut back into the slope by about 1.3 metres along the uphill, north-western edge, and built up by approximately 1.5 metres along the lower, south-eastern edge, creating a level working surface on an otherwise impractical gradient. This kind of earthwork is typical of charcoal-burning platforms found across upland Britain and Ireland, sometimes called pitstead or hearth platforms, where a flat base was essential for constructing and managing the slow-burning wood pile that converts timber into charcoal. The process required days of careful tending and a controlled, oxygen-restricted burn, which is why a permanent, prepared site made practical sense. Several patches of dark soil with charcoal inclusions remain exposed along the south and south-east of the platform, direct physical evidence of that industry. Around sixty metres to the north lies a separate hut site, raising the likelihood that whoever worked this platform also sheltered nearby, perhaps seasonally, perhaps over many years.