There are around twenty such pits in the group, each unlined and relatively modest in scale, yet each clearly legible to an excavator's eye. What makes the site quietly strange is the combination of the mundane and the mortuary: alongside the cremation pits sit larger, sunken hearth-ovens and at least one saucer-shaped pit whose pattern of stake-holes suggests it functioned as a charcoal kiln, the kind of simple earth-covered structure used to produce charcoal by slow, oxygen-restricted burning. The dead and the industrial, it seems, shared the same patch of ground.

The site is probably Bronze Age in date, placing it somewhere in the broad span between roughly 2500 and 500 BC, a period when cremation was the dominant funerary rite across much of Ireland and Britain. The cremated remains were deposited in small, unlined cuts in the earth, and while burnt bone appears throughout, no great quantities were recovered from any single pit. One pit proved to be the exception in a different sense: it contained the remains of a complete ceramic vessel, its upper portion removed by centuries of ploughing, a detail that hints at the kind of grave goods sometimes placed with the dead during this period, even if pottery was otherwise absent across the site. The whitish blobs that might, at first glance, have suggested further features turned out to be entirely natural, the result of water rising through the silty-sand geological drift and leaching pale mineral deposits to the surface.