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Name

Ireland Dingle Peninsula, Ballyglasheen 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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Location

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Country:	Ireland
Locality:	Ballyglasheen

Region:	County Kerry
Area:	Dingle Peninsula


The view from the panel's current location with the stretch of sea between the Dingle and Iveragh Peninsulas just visible in the distance (1m scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)		Photograph of the panel which is in secondary context having been incorporated into an existing field boundary (1m scale shown. 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:	Located on a steep lower south facing slopes of Knocknakilton Mountain with commanding views over Anascaul valley and across to Dingle Bay and the Iveragh Peninsula. Landuse consists of pasture for sheep grazing.
Proximity:	Adjacent to a field boundary fence, and near a stream, standingstone, a series of small cairns, and a modern settlement and roadway

Geology:	Sandstone boulder
Surface:	Smooth , and slightly concave surface with a fissure running across the centre. Microflora include flat lichens, moss and grasses. No signs of dressing or other working was noted. The carved surface lies at an inclination of 40 degrees but the panel is not in its original location.
Dimensions:	Length 1.25 m. Width 1.00 m. Depth 0.15 m.


Photograph of the panel surface - the cups are barely visible in the early evening sunlight, and amidst the lichen covering the stone surface (1m scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)		Photograph of the panel surface - the cups are barely visible in the early evening sunlight, and amidst the lichen covering the stone surface (1m scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)

Art

Description:

Engravings Paintings Painted engravings High or low-relief Sculpture

A series of 27 cup marks are arranged across the central strip of the panel.17 of these are arranged in the form of a basic lozenge shape. They consist of deep pecked cupules produced with a hard tool (probably stone or antler). Cup marks are commonly occurring motifs within the tradition of 'cup-and-ring marks' of the Galician style found across Ireland, the United Kingdom Western France and Iberia.

Figures:

total number 27
Cup marks only

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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Plan of the cup marks pecked across the surface of the panel (source: Cuppage 1986, Fig. 38)

Conservation

Status:	Public Private Park Classified site
Risk:	Exposed to natural causes of erosion, weathering, and potential stock damage

Conservation:	Good Quite good Mediocre Bad
Intervention:	Moved from its original position during field clearance. Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland. Recorded in Cuppage (1986)

Compiler:

Blaze O'Connor

Institution:

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

Record n. 361 / 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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