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Ireland |
Locality: |
Ardamore |
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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: |
Located on a relatively level area on a north westerly slope in improved pasture |
Proximity: |
a short distance from a three standing stone alignment, as well as a modern settlement, field system and associated roadways |
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Geology: |
Sandstone boulder |
Surface: |
Rough convex surface highly obscured by large lichens and mosses, and featuring numerous fissures. Carved surface stands at 100 degrees inclination, with the southeastern face leaning towards the ground slightly |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.90 m.
Width 2.00 m.
Depth 0.58 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
A standing stone with motifs on the NW face. A cup with 2 rings is positioned in the centre of the stone. Above this are three seemingly randomly scattered cups. Below are a series of linear grooves, small cups, two cup and ring motifs, a cup and penannular ring with a radial groove, a cup and ring with a radial groove, and a cup and penannular 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 32
Cups, cup and rings, cup and ring, cup and penannular ring, linear grooves, radial 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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Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
Some of the grooves are quite weathered. The stone is exposed to natural causes of erosion and weathering, and also to stock damage as it is clear that the large upright stones attract stock as scratching posts and sheltered areas, judging by the eroded ground around the base of the panel. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Recorded by Cuppage (1986) as part of the survey of the entire stone alignment. There are small amounst of pink paint visible in some of the lower motifs where it appears that someone has attempted to enhance the visibility of the carvings. Prevention of stock entering the area would greatly reduce the conservation risks apparent under the current management of the field. Listed in the Sites and Monuments Record of Ireland |
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By |
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| Record n. 356 / 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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