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Ireland |
Locality: |
Ballyhoneen / Kilmore |
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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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150 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Incorporated into a wedge tomb on the summit of a low hillock on the eastern side of the Scorid river (forms the eastern roof slab). Landuse consists of rough grazing and peat cutting |
Proximity: |
Relatively close to a river, and located within a pre-bog field system which features settlements, ritual / funary sites, enclosures, standing stones,and fulachta fiadh. |
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Geology: |
Sandstone slab |
Surface: |
A fairly smooth flat surface with some lichens and multiple fissures. The carved surface lies at an angle of 130 degrees inclination. No signs of dressing or other working were noted. |
Dimensions:
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Length 2.00 m.
Width 1.50 m.
Depth 0.32 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
A line of closely spaced small cups across a small section of the long slab. Of these cups only 5 are particularly distinctive, and it is possible that some of the less well formed examples are due to natural processes
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Figures: |
total number 12
Cups only
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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: |
Relatively sheltered from natural causes of erosion and weathering due to its position inside the tomb |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The site is marked as an area of interest within an educational walking tour of the valley which is privately owned but is accessible to the public as a natural park owing to its environmental and archaeological significance. Recorded in Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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Record n. 365 / 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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