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Country: |
Ireland |
Locality: |
Maumnahaltora |
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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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200 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Located on the southern slopes of the Corrin Mountain overlooking the Emlagh river valley to the southwest. The land is in use as pasture and rough pasture. |
Proximity: |
Directly up slope from the Emlagh river, and adjacent to a modern settlement and roadway. The panel lies just south of the northernmost of three wedge tombs in the immediate area. |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Unknown (there is no public access to the site) |
Dimensions:
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Length 1.60 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
There is currently no public access to the site which lies on private farmland, but the panel, which lies to the south of one of the three wedge tombs in the area apparently features a number of cup marks. The stone lies in a prostrate position near the front of the tomb
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Figures: |
Cups only
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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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Notes: |
The three wedge tombs in the area were used as places of Christian devotion, while some of the nearby uprights also formed penitential stations, up until the 1960's (Cuppage 1986, p.32) |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
Unknown (there is no public access to the site). Exposed to natural causes of erosion and weathering. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The site was recorded by De Valera and O' Nuallain (1982). Otherwise unknown (there is no public access to the site). Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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Record n. 388 / 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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