Plans are afoot to reconstruct one face from the skull. It consists of three timber buildings, lying in an area that was damp and boggy for much of the year during the Iron Age. They are thought to represent the temporary homes of cattle farmers using the Levels for summer pasture. The buildings, at Barnard's Farm between Newport and Chepstow, contain evidence of domestic occupation, such as datable pottery and quernstones. Outside, the hoof-prints of Iron Age cattle survive in the surrounding ditch.
Cattle appear to have been standing by the edge of the ditch and sinking in.
The prints were preserved when they were later filled in by estuarine silts. The site, less than two miles inland, lies close to a former tidal creek which silted up after the Roman period. A handful of similar timber buildings have been found since the early 1990s on the Levels foreshore. The buildings, about 5 metres long by 3.5 metres wide, were rectangular with rounded corners. Their walls consisted of rows of stakes driven into the peat, with any gaps filled in by wickerwork.