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Ireland |
Locality: |
Coumduff |
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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: |
Resting atop a larger stone outcrop in a south facing pasture field on the lower slopes of Ballynasare Mountain |
Proximity: |
Located 100m southwest of the large lake Lough Anscaul, and the large waterway which drains it, Owenascaul River. A smaller river lies 50m to the southwest. The panels are a short distance from a pair of standing stones, a third lone standing stone, as well as a modern settlement and associated roadways |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Multiple fissures |
Dimensions:
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Length 1.40 m.
Width 1.15 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
A small number of pecked cup marks (8 definite, and 3 probable) are arraged apparently randomly across the surface. 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 11
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: |
Exposed to natural causes of erosion and weathering |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Recorded in Cuppage (1986). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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Record n. 373 / 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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