What made the discovery more arresting than the hut site alone was its immediate company. Nearby sat a large glacial erratic, a boulder left stranded by retreating ice sheets long before any human settled the area, and this particular stone had an inscribed face, suggesting it had been deliberately marked at some point in the past. Almost alongside the boulder, a small mound was also recorded. Whether the hut, the inscribed stone, and the mound were related in use or simply accumulated across different periods at the same patch of ground is not clear, but their proximity to one another gives the cluster an unsettling density of meaning. The find was recorded by Coffey in 1996 and represents one of those moments when construction groundwork, usually destructive to archaeology, briefly becomes its inadvertent witness.