In reality, what sits on a low plateau at Fortane More is considerably more mundane in origin, and perhaps more interesting for it: the faint, backfilled scar of a gravel pit, long disused, that has gradually been reclaimed by pasture and loose limestone.

The site does not appear on the 1842 edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map, which suggests it had not yet been worked, or at least not worked in any way that caught the cartographers' attention. By the 1899 edition of the twenty-five-inch OS map, it is clearly marked and named as a gravel pit, already described as disused. A 1920 six-inch revision shows it as a hachured area, the conventional mark for a surface depression or disturbed ground. When the site was examined on the ground in 2018, what remained was a roughly rectangular plateau of about fourteen metres by twelve, its surface uneven and defined along the north-northeast to east side by a naturally formed scarp about one and a half metres high and twelve metres wide. At the centre, a shallow depression of around ten centimetres depth almost certainly represents the filled-in pit itself, its outline still just legible in the slight dip of the turf. Loose limestone rocks protrude through the surface across the whole feature.

What makes Fortane More quietly worth noting is less the pit itself than the paper trail around it. The gap between the 1842 and 1899 maps places its active life somewhere in the second half of the nineteenth century. The later misclassification as an enclosure, carried forward in survey records through the 1990s, is a small reminder of how easily the traces of industrial or agricultural activity can be read as something older and more archaeologically significant when the original context has been lost.