What makes it worth pausing over is the layering of human activity compressed into a modest area of ground: the hut itself appears to overlie an earlier midden, the accumulated refuse heap of people who were here before whoever built this structure, eating shellfish or discarding bones at the same spot on the bay.

The site takes a rectangular form, measuring roughly nine metres east to west and between four and five metres north to south. Three sides, the east, south, and west, are defined by an earthen bank about 1.9 metres wide and 0.7 metres high, while the fourth, northern side uses the natural landscape to its advantage, following the scarped slope of a ridge. A scarped slope is one that has been cut or shaped, either by human hand or natural erosion, to form a more pronounced face, and here it serves as a ready-made wall. No original entrance survives in a recognisable form. A second hut site is located nearby, suggesting this was not an isolated occupation but part of a small cluster of activity on the promontory. The midden beneath, recorded separately, points to a sequence of use stretching back further still, though without excavation it is difficult to say how much further.