There is nothing to see above ground now, no marker, no depression, no trace of any kind. The burial at Coldwinters belongs to that category of archaeological site that exists almost entirely as a record rather than a place, known only because a farmer's plough, or a spade, turned up something unexpected around 1957.

The find was recorded by the National Museum of Ireland that same year. Human remains and a flint blade, the latter suggesting a prehistoric date, though the notes stop short of specifying a period with certainty. A flint blade of this kind would typically be associated with Neolithic or Bronze Age burial practice, when such objects were sometimes placed deliberately with the dead, though the precise circumstances of the Coldwinters discovery are not documented in detail. The site sits in the barony of Balrothery East, in the broader Fingal area, on slightly undulating ground that gives no outward sign of what lies beneath. In later years, the surrounding area near Daw's Bridge was subject to significant infrastructure work as part of the Lissenhall to Jordanstown Trunk Water Main Scheme, carried out by Fingal County Council. Archaeological monitoring was required under licence, and was maintained consistently wherever the works passed close to the recorded burial site. The 2009 monitoring report noted nothing further of archaeological significance.

There is, in practical terms, very little for a visitor to do here in the conventional sense. The field is private agricultural land, the ground offers no visible indication of what was found, and the site is known primarily through the paper trail left by the 1957 discovery and subsequent monitoring work. What makes Coldwinters worth knowing about is precisely its ordinariness. The burial is a reminder that prehistoric remains can surface almost anywhere across the Irish landscape, often by accident, often only once, and often without enough context to say very much about the person who was placed there.