A modern Land Commission bank follows the cliff edge, and a narrow ditch runs along its western side, the kind of agricultural tidying that can obscure older features entirely. But cutting across the headland to the east of that bank is something harder to explain away: a fosse seven metres wide, the sort of broad defensive ditch that suggests the ground was once deliberately separated from the mainland. It is not a true promontory in the strict geographical sense, the notes are careful to say, but the arrangement of earthworks points to a site that may once have functioned as one.

A promontory fort is, in its simplest form, a defensive enclosure that uses a natural coastal projection to reduce the amount of man-made barrier required, with a bank, wall, or fosse sealing off the landward side. This site sits immediately east of the large multivallate promontory fort at Doon Point, a well-documented example with multiple lines of defence. The smaller headland beside it is flanked on the north by a narrow chasm, where a sea-arch connects it to the adjacent land. Whether the two sites are related in date or function is unknown, but the proximity is striking. Casey, writing in 2002, classified the site as a possible fort rather than a confirmed one, noting that the interior shows signs of previous cultivation and that the remains of a low perimeter bank are still intermittently visible in places. The area is described as fertile pasture, which may partly explain why earlier features have been worn down or overwritten by later land use.

The sea-arch on the northern flank, accessible through the narrow chasm, is one of the more unusual physical details of the site. Visitors exploring the cliff edge around Ferriter's Cove would want to look carefully at the ground rather than the horizon: the fosse and the remnant bank are subtle, and the modern earthworks added by the Land Commission complicate the picture considerably. What survives is fragmentary enough that the fort classification remains tentative, but the landscape itself, sitting in the shadow of Doon Point, gives the uncertainty its own quiet interest.