[3] It originally served as a substructure wooden buildings used as civic or religious sites by nearby settlements.
[4] These buildings may have included an earthen Great House, approximately 25 meters in diameter.
[11] Numerous artifacts, including pottery, seashells, quartz crystals, minerals and metal items, have been found there.
Large amounts of seeds and faunal remains were also deposited at the site, probably from feasting.
[3] The first modern archaeologist to report the site was David Warren, who performed an archaeological survey of the Biltmore Estate in 1984.