Beneath the topsoil lay a narrow rectangular pit, measuring just over two metres east to west and a quarter of a metre wide, filled with dark grey, silty clay. Mixed through that clay were charcoal flecks, fragments of heat-shattered stone, and burnt bone, the physical residue of a cremation burial or some form of funerary deposit that had been quietly sitting there, undisturbed, until a mechanical digger came along.

The find was recorded by Sherlock in 2002, and the pit's contents point to activity that is broadly prehistoric in character, though the notes do not pin down a more precise date. What gives the site a particular resonance is its landscape context. Within 150 metres of the pit sit two raths, the earthen or stone-walled enclosures, roughly circular, that were the farmsteads of early medieval Ireland, typically dating from the sixth to the twelfth century. Whether the pit predates those enclosures or belongs to the same general period of settlement in this townland is not clear from what was recovered, but the clustering of features suggests that this corner of Carrigaline Middle has been a focus of human activity across a considerable stretch of time. The pit may represent an isolated burial, a small cremation deposit tucked into the ground well away from any formal cemetery, which is not unusual for earlier prehistoric periods when the boundary between domestic space and the treatment of the dead was drawn quite differently than it would be later.