It measures roughly a metre across and barely more than a finger's width above ten centimetres deep, and it contained nothing. No pottery, no bone, no charcoal, no tool. Just a single fill of soil and, beneath it, the cut of a pit that someone, at some point, dug and apparently left at that.

The pit came to light during archaeological work carried out by Ellen O'Carroll as part of the N11 road improvement scheme, a project that opened up long stretches of the Wicklow landscape to archaeological scrutiny as the road was widened and realigned. Such schemes frequently produce finds of genuine consequence, from burnt mounds to medieval field systems, and the anticipation that accompanies excavation is real. Here, the excavation was thorough and the recording careful, but the pit yielded nothing that might betray its age or purpose. A single fill, no finds, no date. The designation it received, E3244, is as close to an identity as it has.