Flint does not occur naturally in Wicklow's bedrock, which makes any concentration of flint artefacts here immediately curious. Someone carried this material to the site, worked it, and left it behind, a small but legible signature of early occupation in a landscape that does not readily give up such things.

The find was brought to light through the work of Professor F. Mitchell and Professor Peter Woodman, two figures central to Irish prehistoric and Stone Age research. A lithic scatter, as the type is known, is essentially a surface or near-surface concentration of knapped stone debris, including tools, waste flakes, and cores left from shaping implements. Such scatters are among the most common yet least visually dramatic forms of prehistoric evidence, easily overlooked and easily disturbed by ploughing or development. Their significance lies in what they suggest about patterns of movement and land use long before any written record. The till slope itself, deposited during the retreat of glacial ice, would have been a feature of the post-glacial landscape that early inhabitants navigated and settled around.