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Country: |
Ireland |
Locality: |
Derrynablaha |
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Region: |
County Kerry |
Area: |
Iveragh Peninsula |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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170 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
The panel is located at the head of the Kealduff river valley, surrounded by steep mountains on all but the southeastern sides, in rough pasture/bog on the northeasterly facing foothills of Mullaghanattin Mountain |
Proximity: |
Several hundred meters from a lake (Lough Brin), and close to several tributary streams of the Kealduff River, as well as a modern settlement, field bounaries, and the main roadway through the valley |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Very flat smooth surface with some fissures - notably a large central one separating the surface into two sections, and a generous covering of lichen across the central area of the stone |
Dimensions:
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Length 1.20 m.
Width 0.75 m.
Depth 0.55 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The panel is separated by a deep natural fissure into two sections. The northern section features dispersed pecking, small cups and faint curvilinear grooves, penannular rings, and some larger cups. The southern section consists of a series of linear and curvilinear grooves partitioning or enclosing different areas of the panel and these are in turn filled with multiple cup marks. Blanket pecking is also apparent in a discrete section. The motifs are characteristic of the cup-and-ring tradition seen across Ireland, the UK, France, and Iberia, consisting of deeply pecked glyphs
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Figures: |
total number 122
Isolated cups, enclosing grooves, linear grooves, curvilinear grooves, penannular rings, pecking, blanket pecking
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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. Many of the motifs are very faint and weathered. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Recorded by Finlay (1973) and published by O'Sullivan and Sheehan (1996). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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Record n. 398 / 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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