The site at Bricketstown came to light not through deliberate archaeological investigation but through the mundane process of road-building, when centre-line testing ahead of the realignment of the N25 between Wexford town and New Ross first detected the feature in 2002.

Full excavation revealed five small pits, the largest roughly one and a half metres across and the smallest barely half a metre in length, all filled with silty clays and almost all containing burnt bone, at least some of it human. Radiocarbon dating of an oak charcoal fragment placed the deposit in the calibrated range of AD 103 to 122, placing these burials firmly in the early centuries of the first millennium, a period when cremation was still practised across much of Ireland and Britain. About twenty metres to the north-east, excavators uncovered a larger, shallower pit measuring nearly three metres in length alongside a smaller companion pit; of those two, only the smaller one yielded burnt bone. What the spatial relationship between the main cluster and this outlying pair actually means is not clear from the evidence recovered. Whether they represent a single episode of deposition or several spread across time, and whether the non-human burnt bone points to animal offerings or simply fuel residue, are questions the excavation could not fully resolve. Sites like this one, modest in scale and discovered only because a road happened to pass through, are a reminder of how much of early medieval and Roman-period funerary practice in Ireland remains poorly understood, preserved just below the plough-line until construction work brings it briefly to the surface.