What makes it notable is partly what is there and partly what is not: no entrance was ever found, very little debris of daily life survived, and the structure itself was only identified because drainage and fencing works prompted someone to look more closely.

The site sits in a small coomb, a shallow sheltered hollow, overlooking a natural harbour at the mouth of the River Ilen. It came to light during Land Project Works and was subsequently excavated by Danaher in 1972. The excavation established that the hut had originally been oval in plan, roughly 8.5 metres by 7 metres internally, but a field fence and drain cut across its south-eastern edge and reduced it to a D-shape. The surrounding bank was not a solid construction in its own right; it was formed from subsoil dug out of a small U-shaped fosse, a shallow external ditch, and deposited inward. Inside, the floor was flat. The only material evidence that anyone had ever lived here was a scattering of thin charcoal deposits, the faint residue of fires long extinguished. Whether the missing entrance was destroyed by the same agricultural works that distorted the outline, or simply never found, could not be determined.