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Name

Ireland Dingle Peninsula, Aghacarrible 1

Keywords: Cup marks, Open-air, Cup and ring, Abstract, Neolithic, Bronze-Age, Rock-art
Institution: University College Dublin http://www.ucd.ie

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Country:	Ireland
Locality:	Aghacarrible

Region:	County Kerry
Area:	Dingle Peninsula


General view of the panel location looking south showing the protective walkway leading to the stone (Photograph: O'Connor 2001)		Photograph of the panel looking west-northwest towards Dingle showing the view of the mountain ridge along the peninsula (Photograph: O'Connor 2001)

Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution. Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.

Environment & Surface

Altitude:	150 m Open-air Shelter Cave Portable Megalithic
Geography:	Situated on a relatively level area of a gentle northeast facing slope overlooking a river valley in improved pasture
Proximity:	Adjacent to and partially underlying a field boundary wall, c300m west of Glounshavanowen River, in the vicinity of slab-lined graves, and a modern settlement and roadway

Geology:	Earthfast sandstone slab
Surface:	Relatively smooth flat surface with some lichen mainly at the edges of the panel. Inclination of carved surface 30 degrees. No sign of dressing or other working.
Dimensions:	Length 3.40 m. Width 1.80 m. Depth 0.55 m.


Photograph of the panel in low sunlight (1m scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)		Photograph of the motifs at the eastern end of the panel (50cm scale shown. O'Connor 2001)

Art

Description:

Engravings Paintings Painted engravings High or low-relief Sculpture

The pecked motifs consist of abstract 'cup-and-ring marks' of the Galician style found across Ireland, the United Kingdom Western France and Iberia. They consist of deep pecked glyphs produced with a hard tool (probably stone or antler). The motifs are concentrated in the southern half of the panel and are arranged either side of a small natural fissure running across the surface. Several of the 'composit' cup and ring motifs feature 'satellite' cups incorporated into the outer rings. The area of the panel previously obscured by the stone field boundary wall measures 1m across. The motifs beneath the wall were recorded by Graves (1877)

Figures:

total number 71
Cups, cup and ring, cup and multiple rings and / or penannular ring(s), linear and curvilinear motifs, key-hole motif, cup and radial line

Chronology:	Palaeolithic Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic Neolithic Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Roman Middle Age Modern Unknown No absolute dates are available but generally accepted as Late Neolithic / Early Bronze Age
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Photograph of the very eroded motifs at the western end of the panel (50cm scale shown. O'Connor 2001)		Plan of the motifs on this panel made prior to the removal of the stone wall (Cuppage 1986, Fig 35 after Finlay 1973)

Conservation

Status:	Public Private Park Classified site
Risk:	The presence of the stone wall across the panel was probably more protective of the surface against weathering than any cause of damage. Natural erosion and weathering are the only major risks.

Conservation:	Good Quite good Mediocre Bad
Intervention:	Recorded and published by Graves (1877) and by Cuppage (1986). The landwoner has placed a protective fence around the stone to protect is from stock damage and provide visitor access. The stone field wall previously covering the western end of the panel has also been removed. Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland

Compiler:

Blaze O'Connor

Institution:

University College Dublin http://www.ucd.ie

Record n. 355 / 807

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EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Polit�cnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient�ficas (España), Asociaci�n Cultural Colectivo Barba�n (España), Université de Liège (Belgique), Gotland University College (Sverige), University College Dublin (Eire), Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia), Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of Pinerolo (Italia), The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal), ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).

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