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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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140 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, on the lower northeastern slopes 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, and the main roadway through the valley |
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Geology: |
Sandstone outcrop |
Surface: |
Flat surface with multiple fissures |
Dimensions:
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Length 5.10 m.
Width 3.40 m.
Depth 2.50 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
There are numerous cups spread across the southeastern surface of the panel, as well as amorphous areas of pecking, faint grooves, and a distinctive cup and ring. In the northwestern section adjacent to this is a cup and ring, and a cup with a meandering penannular groove, as well as a scattering of pecking and smaller cups. The style is consistent with the 'Galician' pecked rock art seen across Ireland, UK, Western France and Iberia.
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Figures: |
total number 54
Cups, dispersed pecking, linear grooves, rings, penannular rings
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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 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. 402 / 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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