The find was modest in scale but pointed to something deeply personal: the partial cremation burial of what was probably an older adolescent, interred in a pit at a spot with a clear relationship to the landscape around it.

The ridge sits roughly 170 metres from the River Slaney, which runs east-west at that point with a width of around 100 metres. Among the recovered material was the rim of a collared urn, a type of Bronze Age ceramic vessel typically used to contain cremated remains. Collared urns take their name from the raised band or collar around the neck of the pot, and are among the most recognisable burial vessels of the earlier Bronze Age in Ireland and Britain. The bone sample was small, which is not unusual for pit-burials of this kind, where only a portion of the cremated remains might be deposited. The identification of the individual as probably an older adolescent comes from analysis carried out by Sikora in 2011, adding a faint human outline to what might otherwise read as an unremarkable scatter of fragments.