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Country: |
Ireland |
Locality: |
Ballinasig |
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Region: |
County Kerry |
Area: |
Dingle Peninsula |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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80 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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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 |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Even flat surface with some fissures and eroded features |
Dimensions:
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Length 2.34 m.
Width 2.24 m.
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Art |
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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
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Figures: |
total number 23
Cup and ring, cup and penannular ring, cup
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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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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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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 |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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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 |
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By |
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Record n. 358 / 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 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).
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