These are struck flints, meaning pieces of flint that have been deliberately shaped by human hand, knapped into tools or waste flakes as part of everyday prehistoric life. The fact that they are eroding out into the open rather than lying undisturbed in a sealed layer is a reminder of how fragile the archaeological record can be, and how much depends on the right person walking the right ground at the right moment.

That moment came in 1983, when a fieldwalking survey, the systematic on-foot examination of ground surface for artefacts, brought the scatter to light. The find was recorded with the involvement of Professor F. Mitchell and Professor P. Woodman, two significant figures in Irish prehistoric studies. Peter Woodman in particular spent much of his career working on Ireland's earliest post-glacial settlers and their stone tool traditions, so his presence in the record here lends the site some weight. The concentration of material suggests this was not a chance loss of a single tool but a place where people stopped, worked flint, and left behind the physical evidence of that activity, now gradually being released from the dune sand that preserved it.