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Ireland |
Locality: |
Ballintlea |
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Region: |
County Kerry |
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Dingle Peninsula |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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60 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Situated in a small depression on a gentle east facing slope below the foothills of Mount Eagle, in an improved pasture field |
Proximity: |
Located along a laneway within a modern settlement and field boundary system, and a few hundred metres from a small stream |
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Geology: |
Massive earthfast sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
The motifs are all on the smooth flat upper surface of the boulder. There is a section measuring 100x150mm on the northwestern side of the stone which appears to have been quarried away. There is a moderate covering of lichen across the surface, and a large area of grasses and other low vegetation on the upper surface of the large boulder. The cups are carved into a horizontal surface at 0 degrees inclination. |
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Dimensions:
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Length 5.50 m.
Width 3.70 m.
Depth 1.10 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
A line of 6 cup marks has been pecked onto the upper northwestern side of this massive earthfast boulder. Two of these are indistinct and are classed as 'probable' cups. The motifs are consistent with the 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). A latin cross within a lozenge-shaped outline has been recently incised into the sloping surface below the cups.The initials on the cross motif correspond to those on the stone at Kildurrihy East, suggesting that it was produced by the same individual, within the last 50 years or so.
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Figures: |
total number 7
Cups, cross
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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: |
The cup marks are somewhat eroded and difficult to see, probably simply due to exposure to natural causes of erosion and weathering. The vegetation on the upper surface is slowly encroaching on the cup marks. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Recorded by Cuppage (1986), and sketch recorded during the Dingle Survey (Dingle Survey archive, Ballyferriter Museum, Dingle Peninsula). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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| Record n. 360 / 807 |
No commercial use is allowed. Specific © is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution |
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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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