The find was unexpected in the way that pipeline archaeology often is: not the result of a dedicated excavation, but of ground disturbance triggering an obligation to record what turned up. What emerged was an extensive cobbled surface, the foundations of walls, and a scatter of pottery that pushed the site firmly into the medieval period.

The finds recorded by E. Halpin in 1988 included examples of Leinster Cooking Ware, a type of coarse, locally produced pottery common in the medieval settlements of Leinster and typically associated with domestic use, alongside glazed medieval pottery of a finer kind. Together, these suggest the remains of a building with some domestic function, occupied at a period when the landscape around the Broadmeadow River was presumably more intensively settled than the open tillage field above it now implies. The site sits on low-lying ground to the west of Saucerstown House and to the south of the Broadmeadow River, a position that would have offered reasonable access to water and the relatively flat terrain favoured for agricultural settlement in the medieval period.

The site is not marked or signposted, and because it was exposed during pipeline construction rather than a formal excavation, there is nothing visible at ground level today. The field remains under tillage. For anyone interested in the wider landscape, the Broadmeadow River corridor north of Swords is worth tracing on a map, as the low-lying ground along it conceals more medieval activity than its present-day agricultural appearance suggests. The significance of the Saucerstown find lies less in what can be seen than in what it implies: that a routine infrastructure project, handled carefully, can recover evidence of settlement that would otherwise remain entirely unknown.