The site was identified partly through the logic of old maps: a cross-roads of tracks implied on an 1835 survey suggested a focal point of some kind, possibly medieval or post-medieval in date. Field boundaries that once defined the area have since been removed, but the land itself offered something more tangible than cartographic inference. At the centre of the possible structure, investigators found a circular bowl-oven, its sides reddened by repeated firing, the kind of feature associated with cooking or small-scale processing rather than industry.

Nearby, a ditch running roughly south-west to north-east contained a more puzzling deposit. Several concentrations of cremated bone were found within it, along with hearth sweepings, the accumulated debris of fires cleared out and tipped away. The burnt material includes animal bone, and the working interpretation is that this represents dumped food waste rather than formal burial, the kind of domestic refuse that accumulates around a working hearth and eventually gets shovelled into a convenient cut in the ground. Whether the bone was deposited directly into cuts within the ditch, or whether the whole fill arrived as a single dump, is not entirely clear. The date of the deposit is unknown. What is clear is that people cooked here, ate here, and cleared up after themselves in ways that left a legible trace in the soil centuries later. A quarry marked on the same 1835 survey on the southern side of the area hints at the broader working landscape this habitation may have sat within, a place of labour as much as shelter.