It is a hut site, one of the most unassuming categories of archaeological monument, and yet precisely the kind of trace that raises more questions than it answers. Who chose this modest crest as a place to shelter, and why here, looking down into a boggy hollow?

The structure itself is modest in every measurable sense. The rectangular area runs roughly 3.8 metres from east-northeast to west-southwest and 2.3 metres from north-northwest to south-southeast, defined by a low earth and stone bank just half a metre wide and around 20 centimetres high. A hut site of this kind typically represents the collapsed or degraded remains of a small dwelling or seasonal shelter, the bank being what survives of walls that were once more substantial. The position is deliberate; the slight crest would have offered reasonable drainage and a clear view eastward over the Shaking Bog, that well-defined valley below whose name suggests ground that moves underfoot, saturated peat that shifts when walked upon. Without further excavation, it is not possible to assign a period to the structure with confidence, and none is recorded here.