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Name

Ireland Dingle Peninsula, Ballyhoneen 5

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:	Ballyhoneen / Kilmore

Region:	County Kerry
Area:	Dingle Peninsula


General view toward the mountains surrounding Lough Adoon, to the southeast of the panel which is visible in the foreground (1m scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)		View of the location of the panel which straddles a pre-bog field wall (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:	120 m Open-air Shelter Cave Portable Megalithic
Geography:	Situated on a large open valley floor surrounded by high mountains to the south, the land slopes slightly to the northeast. Landuse: rough pasture
Proximity:	In proximity to a lake and tributary river, and straddling a disused field wall which appears to be part of a pre-bog fieldsystem

Geology:	Sandstone boulder
Surface:	Smooth and very flat surface with some fissures, grasses and flat lichens. Almost horizontal at 2 degrees inclination. No dressing noted. The northestern end of the stone is rough and jagged which, along with the cup and ring of which half appear to be missing, suggests that this end has been broken off at some stage.
Dimensions:	Length 1.80 m. Width 1.00 m. Depth 0.27 m.


Photograph of the panel, with the central cups of the two largest motifs just visible at either end of the scale bar (1m scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)		Photograph of some of the pecked motifs in the low sunlight of the early evening (50cm scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)

Art

Description:

Engravings Paintings Painted engravings High or low-relief Sculpture

Either side of the boulder is a cup with three rings, one of which also features an associated cup with a possible two rings, and a long linear groove. 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).

Figures:

total number 12
Cup and rings, grooves

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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Photograph of cup mark with rings, a possible cup on the outer ring, and a second cup and ring at the edge of the stone (50cm scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)		Photograph of pecked cup motif with 5 encompassing rings and two linear grooves (50cm scale shown. Photograph: O'Connor 2001)

Conservation

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

Conservation:	Good Quite good Mediocre Bad
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. Location recorded in Cuppage (1986). Motifs recorded by O'Coileain (in prep.)

Compiler:

Blaze O'Connor

Institution:

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

Record n. 368 / 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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