The hut it came from was only four metres in diameter, and it survived not because anyone preserved it, but because the ground above it was disturbed enough by ploughing, roots, and burrowing animals to obscure it from view until a construction project in Murgasty, County Tipperary, made excavation necessary.

The site was uncovered ahead of the building of a government office, on a green-field plot lying to the north of a medieval church and graveyard. The excavation, reported by Cummins in 2000, revealed a circular structure defined by a narrow gully running around its perimeter, somewhere between 0.2 and 0.5 metres wide and roughly 0.2 metres deep. No post-holes or stake-holes were found within this gully, which suggests it may have served as a bedding trench, a shallow channel into which the base of a wall or structural frame was set rather than individually driven. The entrance faced north, identified by a patch of compacted sand backfilled into the gully at that point. Inside, a hearth sat close to the centre of the floor, and a scatter of small post-holes and stake-holes was spread across overlapping sand layers, though they did not resolve into any clear internal arrangement beyond what may have been a spit suspended above the fire. In the north-east corner, two shallow pits were found, and one of them held the bracelet fragment. Jet and lignite, often difficult to distinguish without close analysis, were both used in prehistoric Ireland for personal ornaments, shaped into beads, rings, and bracelets. The presence of such an object here hints at a date considerably earlier than the post-medieval pottery sherd also recovered from the site, though that sherd came from a layer badly disturbed by later activity and cannot be read straightforwardly as a date for the hut itself.

What the site lacks in visual drama it more than compensates for in the quiet strangeness of its survival. A small domestic structure, probably prehistoric, lying just north of a medieval churchyard, eventually sealed beneath farmland and discovered only because someone needed to put up an office building. The bracelet fragment is now the most legible remnant of whoever once kept a fire burning on that floor.