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Locality: |
Gowlaneard / Gowlane Beg / Gowlane East |
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Region: |
County Kerry |
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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: |
On the lower southern slopes of a mountain ridge, on moorland. Landuse consists of rough pasture with grazing sheep. |
Proximity: |
Close to a river, other smaller streams, and the townland boundary, within a pre-bog field system also featuring a standing stone, cairn, two enclosures and several huts. |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Slightly convex uneven with many natural fissures and a moderate covering of lichen. The motifs are carved onto a relatively smooth area of the stone surface. Inclination of decorated section: 0 degrees (horizontal) |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.00 m.
Width 0.97 m.
Depth 0.30 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
A cup and penannular circle with a curving radial groove, and a possible second groove which merges with a natural depression are pecked onto the centre of the stone. 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). The shape of the stone, the differential weathering, and the number of standing stones in the immediate area raise the question of whether this panel represents a fallen standing stone.
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Figures: |
total number 4
Cup, penannular ring, 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: |
Recently exposed to natural causes of erosion and weathering due to turf cutting. The surface of the motifs is highly weathered making the design difficult to see except under oblique sunlight, suggesting that the surface was exposed to the elements for a considerable length of time prior to the stone being covered over by turf. The stone appears be vulnerable to animal damage judging by the droppings across its surface. Some limited spalling was noted on the western edge. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Recorded during the Dingle Survey (Cuppage 1986), and tracings archived in Ballyferriter Museum, Dingle Peninsula. Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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| Record n. 380 / 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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