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Locality: |
Killelton |
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Region: |
County Kerry |
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Dingle Peninsula |
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Environment & Surface |
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Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Located at the base of low cliffs at the south side of Tralee bay, facing north-northwest. The panel could not be located during the field visit, and it may be covered over by wind blown sand at the base of the cliffs |
Proximity: |
Directly on the coast at Tralee Bay - though it may have originally been situated on the cliffs immediately above the beach (Cuppage 1986) |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
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A flat smooth surface with small fissures |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.05 m.
Width 0.94 m.
Depth 0.35 m.
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The surface of the boulder is separated into two sections by a natural ridge and a pecked groove which extends this ridge. The majority of the cup marks are concentrated in a dense area on the southern half, with 12 motifs arranged in an arc across the northern half. The motifs were probably pecked with a hard tool (probably stone or antler). The cups are consistent with the tradition of abstract 'cup-and-ring marks' of the Galician style found across Ireland, the United Kingdom Western France and Iberia.
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Figures: |
total number 52
Cups, radial groove, linear groove
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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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Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
Cuppage (1986) suggests that the stone may have fallen from the cliff edge above to its current position at the base. The stone now appears to have been either covered over by wind-blown sand, or removed from this location |
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Conservation: |
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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. 382 / 807 |
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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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