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Country: |
Ireland |
Locality: |
Kinard East |
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Region: |
County Kerry |
Area: |
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: |
Situated on the gentle northwest facing lower slopes of the hills at Kinard, overlooking the Short Strand estruary. |
Proximity: |
Adjacent to a field bounday fence. Within a few hundred meters of the coastline, estruary and river mouths. In close proximity to an Ogham stone as well as a modern settlement and associated roadways. |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Flat surface with several fissures, cracks and eroded areas |
Dimensions:
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Length 3.45 m.
Width 1.60 m.
Depth 1.05 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
A series of relatively complex motifs is spread across all but one end of this long pointed panel. The 'composite' motifs feature multiple linked rings creating a chain-like effect. Also notable are the 'satellite' cups incorporated into outer rings, and the "dumbell' motifs - two cups linked by a groove. The 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).
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Figures: |
total number 45
cups, cup and ring(s), cup and pennanular ring(s), linear motifs, dumbells, linked rings, enclosing curvilinear motifs
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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: |
Motifs quite eroded. Exposed to the natural causes of erosion and weathering. It is suggested that some damage has resulted from the moving of the stone from its original position (Cuppage 1986). |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Moved since 1973 from its original earthfast position to the field boundary fence. Orignially placed face down but since repositioned decorated face up. Recorded by Findlay (1973) and published by Cuppage (1986) Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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Record n. 383 / 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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