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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, on the northeasterly facing mid-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 boulder |
Surface: |
Lichen covered with wide natural fissures |
Dimensions:
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Length 2.80 m.
Width 1.90 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The motifs are concentrated in the northern section of the panel and consist of a cluster of two cup and rings enclosed by a series of enclosing grooves, and a long meandering groove which terminated at a deep natural fissure. Areas of dispersed pecking surround this, and a scattering of curvilinear grooves and a cup enclosed ina penannular groove are arranged on the periphery. 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 27
Dispersed pecking, meandering linear and curvilinear grooves, enclosing grooves, cups, cup and ring
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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. 391 / 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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