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Name      
Ireland    Dingle Peninsula, Ballinasig 1 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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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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University College Dublin
 
Location
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Country:

Ireland

Locality:

Ballinasig

Region:

County Kerry

Area:

Dingle Peninsula

 

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View of the field in which the panel was located before being removed to the field boundary, with Dingle Town and Harbour in the distance (Photograph: O'Connor 2001)
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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:

80 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Leaning against a southern field boundary wall on the eastern side of the valley NE of Dingle Town. Situated on a gentle south facing slope. The field is in use for sheep grazing and consists of improved pasture. The individual panel could not be located amongst the many stones moved to the boundary wall, as the whole area was heavily overgrown during the site visit, and the surfaces of the stones are covered in moss

Proximity:

Adjacent to a field boundary wall within the modern field system, and a short distance from the modern settlement and associated roadways

Geology:

Sandstone boulder

Surface:

Even flat surface with some fissures and eroded features

Dimensions:
Length 2.34 m.  Width 2.24 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The 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 range of simple motifs are spread across a small portion (around 25%) of the panel surface, with some of the glyphs 'interrupted' by fissures running across the panel

Figures:
total number 23
Cup and ring, cup and penannular ring, cup

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

Notes:

 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Ireland EuroPreArt general bibliography, by University College DublinGeneral (country)
Specific Dingle Peninsula, Ballinasig 1 bibliography, by University College DublinSpecific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

 
Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

Highly weathered and eroded motifs. The area is now overgrown so that the stone surface is protected from natural weathering by wind and rain

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

Panel was removed from its original location beneath 0.2m of soil after its discovery during land development work, and relocated next to a field boundary wall. Recorded by Findlay (1973) and published by Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland

 

By          

Compiler:

Blaze O'Connor

Institution:

University College Dublin  http://www.ucd.ie
 
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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 Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (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).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem

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