What makes it quietly odd is the way it was built, or rather, how it was only partially built. Three sides, east, south, and west, are formed by a collapsed drystone wall, while the northern side requires no wall at all because a natural outcrop of rock serves the same purpose. Whoever constructed it worked with the landscape rather than against it, using what was already there and adding only what was necessary.

The enclosure measures roughly seven metres east to west and 4.7 metres north to south, making it a compact, intimate space. The surviving drystone wall, which is the technique of stacking stones without mortar, now stands only about 0.35 metres high and is around 0.6 metres thick, the result of centuries of collapse and neglect. It occupies a terrace that offers some shelter, with rising ground to the south and the rocky outcrop to the north cutting the wind. Immediately to the west, a separate hut site abuts the enclosure, suggesting this was not a solitary structure but part of a small cluster of activity on this remote hillside. The precise date and purpose of the enclosure are not recorded, but such small drystone enclosures in upland settings are generally associated with seasonal pastoral use, a form of transhumance farming where people and animals moved to higher ground during summer months.