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Country: |
Ireland |
Locality: |
Ballynasare |
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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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60 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
The whereabouts of this panel is now unknown, but it was originally reported near the bridge crossing the small river running through the valley at Ballynasare (Graves 1877), which slopes very gently southeast |
Proximity: |
Near a small river, as well as a prehistoric burnt mound (fulacht fia), and a modern settlement and bridge |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Flat surface with a large fissure running across the center. |
Dimensions:
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Length 2.70 m.
Width 1.40 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The motifs are arranged in two sections across the surface of this stone, separated by a large natural fissure. Two composite motifs - a cup, penannular ring and groove and a cup with a complete ring, penannular ring and groove are pecked onto one half of the surface, and the rest of the motifs are clustered in the central area of the second half. Many of the grooves were highly eroded and difficult to define. 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).
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Figures: |
total number 85
Cups, rings, penannular rings, grooves
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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: |
Unknown (the location of the stone is not known, and it was last described by Graves in 1877) |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The stone was recorded by Graves (1877), and is included in Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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Record n. 370 / 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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