Neither feature was large or dramatic; one was barely three-quarters of a metre across. But the material filling them told a clear story of deliberate, repeated burning.

The principal pit was oval in shape, measuring roughly 0.77 metres by 0.52 metres and only 0.14 metres deep. Its single fill of dark grey sandy clay contained burnt stone, charcoal, and burnt clay, a combination consistent with the use of a kiln, a structure used to fire or dry materials through sustained heat. About six metres to the west lay a second, roughly circular pit of similar shallow depth, its fill a yellow-brown sandy clay with charcoal flecks and burnt stone, and within it a piece of burnt flint. Both features sat approximately forty metres up the slope from a burnt spread identified during the same assessment. The excavation was carried out by L. Clarke under licence 20E0443, following archaeological testing at a site on the Drumcar Road near Dunleer, and the findings were published in Clarke's 2021 report on the Red Barn site.