As the sea eats into its seaward face, layers of domestic refuse are emerging from within, a midden hidden inside a monument that was presumably built for rather more ceremonial purposes. A midden, at its simplest, is an ancient rubbish deposit, the accumulated kitchen waste of a community, and finding one stratified through a burial mound raises quiet questions about how the site was used and reused across time.

What the eroding section face has revealed is concentrated and varied: limpet shells, animal bones from cattle, sheep, and pig, charcoal fragments, and other burnt material, all appearing at several distinct levels within the mound. The presence of multiple layers suggests this was not a single episode of occupation or deposition but something that accumulated over a period, with people returning to the site, eating, burning, and discarding. The burial mound itself is recorded separately, and the midden material appears to be associated with it in a way that has only become visible as coastal erosion works inward from the strand.