A roadworks project is not the most romantic way to discover the dead, but it is often an effective one. During archaeological testing carried out ahead of the N7 Naas Road Widening and Interchanges Scheme, a site at the base of a slope to the north of Kill Hill in County Kildare first announced itself as little more than an amorphous pit with a charcoal-rich fill. What followed, once a 15 by 15 metre area was stripped of topsoil, was considerably more significant: a roughly circular ditch, just 6.3 metres in diameter, enclosing a cluster of pits that turned out to be a Bronze Age burial site, possibly the remnant of a small flat cemetery, meaning a cemetery without any surviving above-ground mound or monument, the surface having long since been ploughed or eroded away.

Six pits were recorded within and around the ditch. Five contained burnt bone, the product of cremation, which was the dominant burial practice across much of Bronze Age Ireland. The central pit, probably the earliest or primary burial, had been disturbed at some point by a later interment, represented by an undecorated cinerary urn, a fired clay vessel used to contain cremated remains, found lying on its side. Sherds from a second, different pot were also recovered from the fill of this secondary burial, suggesting the site accumulated use over time rather than representing a single moment of deposition. A fifth pit, cutting through the ditch itself to the north, contained both burnt bone and an unburnt animal tooth, a small detail that hints at ritual practices not fully understood. Four post-holes arranged in a rough square were also recorded, cutting through both the ditch and the natural subsoil; one of these held a small deposit of burnt bone. Whether the posts once supported a marker, a screen, or some other structure above the burials is not known. Token deposits of bone were found lining the edges of the ditch cut itself, as if the boundary of the enclosure was considered as much a part of the ritual landscape as the pits within it.