One of a group of 12 shieling mounds or hut circles forming the Glen Dhoo settlement, which is centred on SC35308988 and thought to  represent a probable Early Medieval settlement of Block Eary type.  


This example is partly scooped out of the hill slope and partly built up, forming a platform cut 0.5 metres into the slope and built up to 0.5 metres.  The diameter of the level area measures 3.0 metres.


The hut circles are situated on a marshy ground around the gathering point of a northwest flowing stream. The ground rises in all directions to surrounding hills, apart from the northwest, where after 180 metres of gentle downward flow, the stream plunges steeply to the valley below.  The huts are invisible from the valley below but an outlying hut to the east seems almost to act as a look-out. The shallow course of the stream which passes between the huts shows traces of some disturbance. There are fragments of banks in the area, the purpose of which has not been deduced. No entrances have been found to any of the huts.