At roughly seven and a half metres across, it is modest in scale, the kind of feature that could easily be dismissed as a trick of the landscape. Yet its roughly circular form and the pattern of protruding stones suggest something more deliberate than an accidental accumulation.

What the mound represents precisely remains uncertain. Nearby, close to the shore edge, sits what may be a field clearance heap, the sort of practical pile that generations of farmers created simply by gathering stones from cultivable ground and stacking them out of the way. The proximity of the two features raises the obvious question of whether the mound itself shares that mundane origin, or whether it predates the field system entirely, perhaps marking something older beneath the sod. Without excavation, the ambiguity holds. Stones protruding from below the surface can indicate the collapsed remains of a kerbed or cairned structure, the kind associated with prehistoric burial or boundary marking, but they can equally be the buried detritus of agricultural tidying. The mound sits quietly with that uncertainty intact.