The grave sits on a steep slope on the southwestern side of Kittern Hill, the highest point on Gugh.

[2] Burial monuments on the islands range in date from the later Neolithic period to the Middle Bronze Age (c.2500-1000 BC).

[3] Obadiah's grave was excavated in 1901 by the British archaeologist, George Bonsor, who discovered a crouching male skeleton in the middle of the chamber and a Bronze Age cremation urn and several cremation urn fragments.

Near the entrance to the chamber, Bonsor uncovered a bronze awl, more urn fragments and cremated and unburnt bones.

[3] The grave was named for Obadiah Hicks, a farmer who lived on St. Agnes at the time of the excavation.